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It's totally safe. What are you afraid of? (media.piefed.world)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/memes@lemmy.world
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[–] 7 points 10 months ago* (3 children)

Those questions are easily answered, though.

This question obviously revolves around the philosophical idea of the ship of Theseus.

In the scenarios you listed, it is definitively the same ship (albeit with different pieces/cells that have replaced parts over time), whereas in the original scenario it is akin to making an identical, second ship.

There is a clear distinction between those things. If there weren't, the ship of theseus couldn't exist as a thought exercise

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    What if they're in a coma for long enough that all of their cells are replaced? It's all dancing around the question: assuming there is no soul, what is the self?

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago

    It's all dancing around humans not wanting to admit they are just a bunch of stuff that could be hypothetically rearranged, destroyed, recreated, cloned, etc.

    Any such device being wormhole based is far more realistic than considering the insane requirements of instantaneous subatomic recreation, transmission of that information and destruction of the original

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    I don't think any of those questions and in writing this comment I have decided that I solved the ship of theseus and decided that I deny the premise outright.

    So anyway I'm gonna get some sleep and continue manic posting tomorrow.

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