Re: The Ship of Theseus If you had a brain transplant you would no longer be you. You would be a bodily host for another person's conciousness so another bad example Also yes it would be your ship but that doesn't make it the same ship. Even with the same name it's never going to be the same ship it once was. Some parents have has miscarriages and accidents in the past where they lost a child of a certain name. They then go on to name a new child the same name which doesn't make it the same child does it?
^ that's a completely different concept, it's like buying a boat and having that boat sink, only to buy another boat.
Well in reality it's not. The boat is made up of completely different parts including the hull so in effect it's a completely different boat. Just because it has the same name doesn't make it the same boat.
I'm surprised that no one has pointed out that humans do this many times throughout our life. In fact, almost our entire body's cells get replaced throughout our life, except for most of our brain cells, which is why we can remember and learn things.
I would like to proffer two points that nullify and render moot the entire question. 1) Laying in bed watching "YouTube" uh huh, really??? And you read Ashes posts for the intellectual content... 2) Intelectual on "YouTube", maybe on TED, but mentos experiments, kitty dress up videos and and skat3r dude wipeouts eliminate all traces of credibility. So I surmise you made this all up! As the wise scholar Daniel Tosh would say "nanny nanny boo boo I'm better than you"
It's arrboat time a Pirate posted on this wet and soggy thread. I pegged you to knot use my name in vane but now I am forced to give you a stern warning. My threads are knot Nauti!.. They are knot Playbuoy! Bow to my hipnautic seaduction fishschizzle... Oar else I'd call the Codfather.. It's a tug lyfe y'all.. Don't give into pier pressure.. Seas the day! Seas the day! Canoe dig it?