Brain, Body and Ship of Theseus
by Brian Wang from NextBigFuture.com on (#6GQXH)
The Ship of Theseus is a thought experiment about whether an object which has had all of its original components replaced remains the same object. Theseus, the mythical Greek founder-king of Athens, rescued the children of Athens from King Minos after slaying the minotaur and then escaped onto a ship going to Delos. Each year, ...