• jsomae@lemmy.ml
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    15 天前

    You’re right, I shouldn’t have called it a riddle. Still, being a fucking thought experiment doesn’t preclude having a solution. Theseus’ ship is another famous fucking thought experiment, which has also been solved.

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      15 天前

      ‘A solution’

      That’s not even remotely the point. Yes there are nany valid solutions. The point isn’t to solve it, but what how you solve it says about and clarifies your ideas.

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        15 天前

        I suppose if you’re going to be postmodernist about it, but that’s beyond my ability to understand. The only complete solution I know to Theseus’ Ship is “the universe is agnostic as to which ship is the original. Identity of a composite thing is not part of the laws of physics.” Not sure why you put scare quotes around it.