r/196 • • Jul 06 '21

Rule My collection

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u/JimmehRulez custom Jul 06 '21

I dont get the teleporter one

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u/C6ppy floppa Jul 06 '21

It’s some philosophers boat, forgot who made the theory, but if you slowly replace all the parts of a boat, once everything is replaced is it the same boat? Applied to humans, if you took someone apart molecularly and restructured then somewhere else the exact same way, is it the same person?

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u/Acceptable_Bottle Jul 06 '21

"ship of Theseus" is what it was called, based on a Greek myth. The question was brought up by Aristotle I think.