• Soggy@lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    What if they’re in a coma for long enough that all of their cells are replaced? It’s all dancing around the question: assuming there is no soul, what is the self?

    • ryannathans@aussie.zone
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      7 hours ago

      It’s all dancing around humans not wanting to admit they are just a bunch of stuff that could be hypothetically rearranged, destroyed, recreated, cloned, etc.

      Any such device being wormhole based is far more realistic than considering the insane requirements of instantaneous subatomic recreation, transmission of that information and destruction of the original

    • AlexanderTheDead@lemmy.world
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      7 hours ago

      I don’t think any of those questions and in writing this comment I have decided that I solved the ship of theseus and decided that I deny the premise outright.

      So anyway I’m gonna get some sleep and continue manic posting tomorrow.