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minus-square☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down3·1 month agoThat’s exactly what the comic is about. If we follow the artificial replacement of your body argument, then over time you could change it into an airplane. Would you stop being you at that point?
minus-squarePeppycito@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 month agoIf you change a boat into a wagon, is the boat a wagon or is the wagon a boat?
minus-square☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down3·1 month agoIt’s a transition of an entity that used to be a boat into a wagon. This really isn’t that difficult of a concept.
minus-squarePeppycito@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 month ago used to be a boat So it’s not Theseus’s ship anymore, which is my point.
minus-square☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down2·1 month agoI mean that’s literally the punchline of the comic.
That’s exactly what the comic is about. If we follow the artificial replacement of your body argument, then over time you could change it into an airplane. Would you stop being you at that point?
If you change a boat into a wagon, is the boat a wagon or is the wagon a boat?
It’s a transition of an entity that used to be a boat into a wagon. This really isn’t that difficult of a concept.
So it’s not Theseus’s ship anymore, which is my point.
I mean that’s literally the punchline of the comic.