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[–] 96 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (11 children)

Isn’t the human body exactly that

I’m pretty sure I’m not my 10 year old self. Even though i have since off their memories

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  • [–] 46 points 4 months ago (6 children)

    Apart from specific non-proliferating cells, statistically all of your entire body's cells will have been completely replaced every 7 years*.

    So we're all exactly like that... just over such a long period of time we don't notice it.

    *For the quickest proliferating cells in your body, like your skin cells, this is a matter of just weeks.

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  • [–] 25 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    iirc nerve cells basically live forever. So I'm the end, you'll completely regenerate, except for your nerve cells

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Yeah but those cells still have proteins making new parts.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    And new neurons are being made all the time, just more slowly and in specific places that then migrate to where they're needed, so as not to disrupt too much of the neural mesh (and thus completely derail memories or other models).

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago

    This is my view: Your body ages and regenerates. You are a living ship of theseus, you are a different person at different stages of life. Yet, you retain the memory of your past life.

    The ship of theseus is an entirely different ship, but it retains the memory of a self.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    I'm taking bids for a contract: what's the minimum rate of surgeries per year you can offer to make me immortal. I offer a perpetual fraction of my lifetime earnings, to be agreed upon later.

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