What if you replace each piece of the original ship with an identical piece? What if you use all of the removed pieces to build an identical ship? Which one is then the "real" ship?

[–] glimse 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

What if you replaced half the pieces and used the replaced parts to build a new ship

[–] Buddahriffic 2 points 10 months ago

What if you had a time machine and sent a ship made out of original parts back in time then swapped half of the parts between the two ships?

Will the older pieces immediately rot to dust because the older ship already had those parts swapped out in its past, so the older pieces are actually trapped in a time loop, but since they keep getting older they just disappear, but it's ok because you have the new pieces from the past so you're left with a ship with new pieces and slightly older pieces?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

So I could have 3 original ships of Theseus?

[–] Stinkywinks -1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

.... If you have 33% of the original ship left. What makes you think there are 3 original ships. It's like you're trying to confuse yourself. If you took 33% of the original ship to make a new one, you did just that. Being vague isn't profound

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

What's vague? You can divide the ship into 3 and replace the missing pieces for each third. You now have 3 ships with 33% of the original, all of which fit your criteria

[–] Stinkywinks -2 points 10 months ago

The original ship is where the pieces are coming from, the new ship are made from those pieces. This is sooooo dumb to be arguing. Just be more specific and no issues.