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LazyRaven01 t1_jeebp08 wrote

Semantically, yes. Ship of Theseus is, by definition, a ship owned/used by Theseus. Even if he swapped ships in a dock somewhere, he would still arrive in the Ship of Theseus.

If it is the same ship, I'd argue that no, it isn't, and it stops being one the second you switch the first plank. I am a different person than I was yesterday, just as I am a different person than I was a minute ago. A bacteria in my stomach just died and I feel marginally different than I did two seconds ago.

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fairygodmotherfckr t1_jeeb65i wrote

I think about this a lot.

When we lived in a place with a bath, it was common for me to take at least one bath per day, to help with the pain I'm in.

Assuming I have any, my grandchildren will never believe that I would just sit in a pool of hot, potable water like that. I can hardly believe it myself.

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alpacasarebadsingers t1_jeeawvl wrote

Back in the days of film cameras when you had to wait until it was developed to see what you got, I had gone to Versailles. I took a picture of the gardens from the top of the stairs. Apparently some Asian tourist was standing about 20 feet away looking directly at me. He was absolutely centered in the frame and it looked like I was taking a picture of him. Everyone asked who he was. I ended up putting the picture at the front of the photos album and writing an in memorium for my fictitious Asian friend.

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