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minus-squarePeppycito@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-25 months ago eventually your body was replaced by a new artificial one But that’s not what the comic is about. If we followed the comic, your body would eventually be turned into an airplane.
minus-square☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down3·5 months 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-up1·5 months 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-down3·5 months 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-up1·5 months ago used to be a boat So it’s not Theseus’s ship anymore, which is my point.
minus-square☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down2·5 months agoI mean that’s literally the punchline of the comic.
But that’s not what the comic is about. If we followed the comic, your body would eventually be turned into an airplane.
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.