Except the ones in your brain, they’re very rarely if ever replaced. And I think most people would agree that your brain is the most important part of your body for your identity
I think the ‘point’ of the ship of thesius is often missed. Grouping things together to be one entity is thought process done in our brains for ease of understanding, but it doesn’t exist in the real world.
I think the ship of thesius thought experiment is there to show that there are times where things can’t be distinctly grouped. When things don’t fit nicely into groups we shouldn’t force them, but abandon the that grouping as it isn’t applicable to the situation.
You already are a ship of theseus that is sentient. Every cell in your body is replaced around every 7-12 years.
I’m not even convinced I wake up the same me that fell asleep.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ and oddly enough I feel profoundly different every decade or so. Wouldn’t almost recognize my younger self.
And we are fully dependent on things like bacteria too. Some of which affects us through the gut-brain pathway.
There should be a Black Mirror where uploaded people get hungrier and hungrier.
Except the ones in your brain, they’re very rarely if ever replaced. And I think most people would agree that your brain is the most important part of your body for your identity
I think the ‘point’ of the ship of thesius is often missed. Grouping things together to be one entity is thought process done in our brains for ease of understanding, but it doesn’t exist in the real world.
I think the ship of thesius thought experiment is there to show that there are times where things can’t be distinctly grouped. When things don’t fit nicely into groups we shouldn’t force them, but abandon the that grouping as it isn’t applicable to the situation.