candothat: (A good officer)
Chekov, Pavel Andreievich ([personal profile] candothat) wrote in [community profile] poly_chromatic 2013-11-22 07:14 pm (UTC)

I have reached no such limits.

Of course it is still that person. Memory, mind, and personal identity are unaffected by the process, and so there is no reason to think that the reassembled person is not the "real" person.

I think that too much emphasis is being placed on this word, "real." What is is real, correct? Theseus has a rebuilt ship, the thief has a ship built of the pieces of what was Theseus' ship. Either way, what was no longer is.

[Wow, that... is dated technology.]

That seems a waste of glasses.

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