Ship of Theseus paradox
Feb 12, 2018 16:56:33 GMT -5
Post by 40oz on Feb 12, 2018 16:56:33 GMT -5
The Ship of Theseus paradox is an ancient riddle. It goes like this. You take a boat out into the ocean and you're storing spare boat parts on your boat. During your journey out to the ocean, your sail rips, so you go into storage, take out a new sail and replace the sail with a new one. Then your ship runs over some rocks, so you need to replace the damaged parts. In the rest of your journey, you continue wearing out and damaging your boat until every part of the boat needs to be replaced.
By the time you return to shore, did you leave with the same boat you sailed out with?
I got a little carried away after seeing this video of this bodybuilder with a bionic arm. There are other videos on the internet in regards to superhuman prosthetic limbs that can lift many hundreds of times its own weight. Suppose people exist in a distant future where it becomes the norm to surgically replace our body parts one by one with new ones that allow us to lift really heavy objects, jump really high, or run really fast. It won't stop there. Eventually we can replace our eyes that see great distances and magnify things up close, or replace our lungs with a device that will enable us to breathe underwater. At a certain point we will be able to replace each an every part of our bodies with a technologically superior tool far more advanced than our own human biology, eventually separating our consciousness from our own bodies. From there we could use our new technologically enhanced bodies to so to space where we won't need to breathe oxygen or endure extreme temperatures or have a finite lifetime. Our bodies will be substituted for mechanical androids that can sustain all the destructive forces of nature that make us so vulnerable.
By the time you return to shore, did you leave with the same boat you sailed out with?
I got a little carried away after seeing this video of this bodybuilder with a bionic arm. There are other videos on the internet in regards to superhuman prosthetic limbs that can lift many hundreds of times its own weight. Suppose people exist in a distant future where it becomes the norm to surgically replace our body parts one by one with new ones that allow us to lift really heavy objects, jump really high, or run really fast. It won't stop there. Eventually we can replace our eyes that see great distances and magnify things up close, or replace our lungs with a device that will enable us to breathe underwater. At a certain point we will be able to replace each an every part of our bodies with a technologically superior tool far more advanced than our own human biology, eventually separating our consciousness from our own bodies. From there we could use our new technologically enhanced bodies to so to space where we won't need to breathe oxygen or endure extreme temperatures or have a finite lifetime. Our bodies will be substituted for mechanical androids that can sustain all the destructive forces of nature that make us so vulnerable.