Of my last blog, a human asked "Wouldn't it cease being you after the first change, not the last?"
Well, let me ask you a question to answer your question. If you replace a tire, do you have a new car?
Monday, July 28, 2008
Posted by TL Kincaid at 3:15 PM
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But at what point do you have a new car?
I think the term "new" is a bit misleading anyway (you automatically think "unused" when it comes to cars, even if it's not the real definition).
If you change a tire on a car, the car is not as it was before, its different, as with people when they change something small, they become different.
Since they are not the same person as before, doesn't that make them new? Even if it's a small change?
As small as the change is, it does in a way build up a brand new car (or human). But the human is in constant change so should constantly be considered new, in every second. We should look at individuals as new every second, because telling ourselves that they stay the same old memory is just, in this case, a lie.
The problem is your use of the word "new" instead of using the word "different." It's verbal slight-of-hand. Differences are easy to spot but "new" implies some sort of overhaul, a series of changes that goes further than "different." (And, no, I could never pinpoint when one became the other. But I suppose that was your point, wasn't it?)
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