On Mar 8, 11:36*am, Immortalist wrote:
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We are still struggling with Heraclitus's puzzle.

http://faculty.washington.edu/smcohen/320/theseus.htmlhttp://faculty.washington.edu/smcohen/320/heracli.htm Onhttp://www.iep.utm.edu/heraclit/

The human body is more like a whirlpool in a river where a *pattern*
remains constant although it can move about and change shape
while the water molecules that compose it are forever changing
and those water molecules may go on to make up other whirlpools.

So it seems to me that personal identity is a continuation of a
dynamic pattern when we talk about the personal identity of
a human being.

So although ship C may be made out of the same parts that
once made ship A it is not the same ship anymore than if the
atoms that made one person are then used to build another
person would make the other person the same while the first
person is now made up of a completely new set of atoms.