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this post was submitted on 13 Sep 2023
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If you arm gets cut off, you and your arm go together to the hospital, and they reattach it, are you a different person? If you die in the ambulance and they revive you, are you a different person?
More like: If you replace all parts of a boat with completely new parts, is it still the same boat?
I don't know if I call it new parts, identical parts definitely. But is something technically new if it's identical on a molecular level? Blemishes and defects and all.
Well no, it's the same parts. It's literally called the matter stream. The exact same parts are taken apart, moved to a new location, and reassembled.