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It is weird that for me it kinda depends on item in question. Slowly keeping rotting wooden ship alive is probably same ship. But let's take desktop computer.
by Ekaros 3y ago
It is weird that for me it kinda depends on item in question.
Slowly keeping rotting wooden ship alive is probably same ship.
But let's take desktop computer. CPU, GPU, RAM, MotherBoard, Case, Powersupply, A disk. What if I replace each of these components over a year with exactly same model. So exactly same CPU for exactly same CPU. And then finally I clone the disk to new disk, but to exactly same model of a disk.
Some serial numbers have changed, but it operates the same, has the same data and software on. And I could even change the license key of software like OS.
Is it same computer or not? And somehow I feel it is not the same.
- npteljes 3y agoThat feeling is the one that's important, I feel. None of these things exist in that way the first place, but we pretend, and we agree on these pretenses. This is how the human mind copes with the stimuli it gets. With regards to computers, I have different things in my mind. For the feeling part, the computer's role is what matter. "My main desktop computer", "My main server computer", "My work laptop". I can know that they are not the same, but they feel similar enough, because they play the same role for me, so for the most part, I don't make a difference.