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 This cute, little dictator is still the same human he was when he first heard the word "assassination". This cute, little dictator is still the same human he was when he first heard the word "assassination".
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 "Imagine that a ship which fought a great battle, while captained by the hero Theseus, is stored in a harbor as a museum piece. As the years go by some of its rotten parts are replaced by new ones until, eventually, all of the parts from the original ship are replaced. If someone were to recover the original parts and rebuild the ship at another location, which of the ships should be considered the true ship of Theseus? Is there a point at which the structure at the first location stopped being the ship of Theseus?" ~RationalWiki "Imagine that a ship which fought a great battle, while captained by the hero Theseus, is stored in a harbor as a museum piece. As the years go by some of its rotten parts are replaced by new ones until, eventually, all of the parts from the original ship are replaced. If someone were to recover the original parts and rebuild the ship at another location, which of the ships should be considered the true ship of Theseus? Is there a point at which the structure at the first location stopped being the ship of Theseus?" ~RationalWiki
  
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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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 As with most things, the issue over Ship of Theseus is mostly a //[[words]]// problem. My arm is the same arm I was born with as far as I am concerned, the question over whether it being of a different physical makeup makes it a different arm is so incredibly far removed from anything resembling a meaningful or reality-based conversation that it is absolutely pointless to talk about. As with most things, the issue over Ship of Theseus is mostly a //[[words]]// problem. My arm is the same arm I was born with as far as I am concerned, the question over whether it being of a different physical makeup makes it a different arm is so incredibly far removed from anything resembling a meaningful or reality-based conversation that it is absolutely pointless to talk about.
 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 - "being" a human is a **thought** in monkey brains. People attribute different things to "being a human". For one a new human might start and end where for someone else there have already been three different humans - not because there have actually been different humans, but because their perception of what makes a human a human is different. //REALITY// only knows the presence or absence of atoms, things like "being" or "continuing to be" and "ceasing to be" are ridiculed on this level. Down here, the only thing that "is" is math.(([[https://youtu.be/qD6bPNZRRbQ?t=731|YouTube: CGP Grey - The Simple Secret of Runway Digits]] "Okay look, 'whirl around' and 'spin' don't mean what you think, down here, because in the land of quantum words mean nothing, there is only math.")) 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 - "being" a human is a **thought** in monkey brains. People attribute different things to "being a human". For one a new human might start and end where for someone else there have already been three different humans - not because there have actually been different humans, but because their perception of what makes a human a human is different. //REALITY// only knows the presence or absence of atoms, things like "being" or "continuing to be" and "ceasing to be" are ridiculed on this level. Down here, the only thing that "is" is math.(([[https://youtu.be/qD6bPNZRRbQ?t=731|YouTube: CGP Grey - The Simple Secret of Runway Digits]] "Okay look, 'whirl around' and 'spin' don't mean what you think, down here, because in the land of quantum words mean nothing, there is only math."))
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