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>>The problem is that many people think only the one that dies deserved to be called "you". That's some strange definition of originality. By this definition y
by kamaal 10y ago
>>The problem is that many people think only the one that dies deserved to be called "you".
That's some strange definition of originality. By this definition you are not yourself any moment because the atoms in your body are being replaced wholesale one-for-one every few months/years.
This is really: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus
- vinceguidry 10y agoThe Ship can only be called the same ship because it was used continuously during one journey. If the sailors had disembarked, broke the ship down on land, and reused some of the parts to rebuild it, nobody would be calling it the same ship. Only because it happened slowly do they call it the same ship. If they took part of the ship and used it to build a new ship, and rebuilt the parts they took with new wood, they wouldn't call the new ship the same ship as the old ship. So it's perfectly fine to identify as the continuous stream of awareness, and are perfectly justified to state that a break in that continuity would constitute creation of a new person rather than a continuation of the current one.
- kamaal 10y ago>>Only because it happened slowly do they call it the same ship. They don't call it anything. That is precisely the paradox here. The pace is irrelevant because after time duration X, for whatever value of X the ship is not the same as before, or is it? We don't know!