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+ | This cute, little dictator is still the same human he was when he first heard the word " | ||
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+ | **Is the Ship of Theseus | ||
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+ | **What about the other ship?**\\ | ||
+ | That's another ship built from old parts of the Ship of Theseus. | ||
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+ | ====== But some parts in the body don't replace so quickly! ====== | ||
+ | But //if// they did, would you //then// suddenly be a different person? If the atoms making up your DNA were replaced on a daily basis, would you THEN be a different human? The point is that there are obviously some properties of things and objects that transcend the realm of the physical and, as long as they continue to apply to the physical human they are tied to, the exact physical makeup of that human does not matter. | ||
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+ | If you think about it then you literally are just a particularly dense part of the atomic cloud we call reality, with no “real” body to speak of. | ||
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+ | ~Me while discussing this page with [[PiousLittleChristianGirl]]. | ||
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+ | As with most things, the issue over Ship of Theseus is mostly a // | ||
+ | If one day you found out that you were not the son of your mother but were indeed artificially bred in an incubator - would that make you a different human? Surely you would feel like you were different from what you //thought// you were but essentially you are still the same human being and retain all of the qualities you previously had, just with a different context than what you had originally presumed to be true. This is the core of the problem - " |
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