Re: Joy of this, Joy of that

On 07/12/2024 02:30, Charlie Gibbs wrote:

On 2024-12-06, The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:
 

(The Ship of Theseus, also known as Theseus's Paradox, is a paradox and
a common thought experiment about whether an object is the same object
after having all of its original components replaced over time,
typically one after the other.

      Last night somebody broke into my apartment and replaced
     everything with exact duplicates.  When I pointed it out
     to my roommate, he said, "Do I know you?"
       -- Steven Wright
 

Love it!

     This, milord, is my family's 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.
       -- Terry Pratchett: The Fifth Elephant
 And of course, our bodies go through much the same process.
 

And yet we have the feeling of continuity of at least our consciousness.
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