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Ship of Theseus.[1]
David Thomas • The Pragmatic Programmer
The Ship of Theseus: If a ship has all of its components replaced over time, is it still the same ship? (This thought experiment questions the nature of identity and whether an object remains the same if all of its parts are replaced.)
a chariot can survive change in its parts, and even disassembly and reassembly. It is therefore neither identical with the collection of its parts, nor with those parts arranged in some particular way.
Jay L. Garfield • Losing Ourselves: Learning to Live without a Self
I remembered once, in Japan, having been to see the Gold Pavilion Temple in Kyoto and being mildly surprised at quite how well it had weathered the passage of time since it was first built in the fourteenth century. I was told it hadn’t weathered well at all, and had in fact been burnt to the ground twice in this century. ‘So it isn’t the original
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