Re:How close are we to 3D printing the human heart?
by Timpy on Thursday August 15, 2019 @07:47AM
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How many body parts can I replace with my spare-parts-clone until I don't have anything of the original left? We have a Ship of Theseus question about human identity. As interesting as this rabbit hole is, I think the pragmatics of "you need a new body part and this will save your life" will be more compelling.
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Re:How close are we to 3D printing the human heart?
by joycian on Thursday August 15, 2019 @08:29AM
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How many cells need to be regenerated for you to be a new person? The ship of Theseus is totally uninteresting to me and to be honest I think it has never been interesting. It's just calling attention to the fact that arbitrary definitions are arbitrary.