What he said… It turns out that Reza Shabanali and I share some ponders.
Theseus returns. Or does he?
Socio-political philosophical musings
Socio-political philosophical musings
What he said… It turns out that Reza Shabanali and I share some ponders.
Philosophics 
The trouble with thought experiments is they tend to be unrealistic.
You can’t completely replace all the parts of a ship this way. There is a chassis: the keel, which you simply can’t get at without first getting everything else out of the way.
Every complex piece of machinery has a chassis of some sort. When you assemble something, you start with the chassis and add stuff. When you disassemble something, the chassis is what you’re left with.
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True enough, although I might be able to reconstruct something modularly or land-based without this complication—perhaps a house. Even more relevant, the fact that the average life of a human cell is 7 years—some much shorter or longer—, the question of identity remains.
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