Re:Transplant an organ? Why not an entire body?
by maldini94 on Sunday March 07, 2021 @12:01PM
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This reminds me of the Greek paradox "Ship of Theseus" which asks the question if every part of a ship is reconstructed over time is it the same ship?
If any subset of the new ship is a subset of the original ship then surely. But this also raises the question if we take a subset and build a new ship. Which is the original?
Another interesting take is to introduce non-physical attributes such as a name of the ship. That way every piece of wood could be changed but the name attribute would still make it a subset
Re:Transplant an organ? Why not an entire body?
by hateful on Sunday March 07, 2021 @12:23PM
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If you copy a file to a another drive, is it the same file?
Re:Transplant an organ? Why not an entire body?
by ddingus on Sunday March 07, 2021 @12:31PM
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There may be only one electron--> Feynman
Re:Transplant an organ? Why not an entire body?
by JoeAltmaier on Sunday March 07, 2021 @11:14AM
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Or the axe George Washington used to chop down the cherry tree. Had 2 new heads and three new handles, but its the same axe!
We have owned it for almost nine hundred years, see. Of course, sometimes it needed a new blade.
And sometimes it has required a new handle, new designs on the metalwork, a little refreshing of the ornamentation . . . but is this not the nine hundred-year-old axe of my family?
And because it has changed gently over time, it is still a pretty good axe, y'know. Pretty good.”
- T. Pratchett - "The fifth elefant"