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Your grandpas axe. It's got a new head and handle, but the same advanced sentient intelligence. Is it the same axe? (lemmy.world)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago

Yes. Because who doesn't like a good ship of Thesius analogy.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The you from 5 years ago was different from the you now but still considered you even though many cells have changed since then.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

a man can never cross the same river twice since it is no longer the same river nor is he the same man

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

No but it wasn't the same axe you inherited ten seconds after you inherited it, either.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Ah, the ol' Trigger's Broom!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

It was never really grampa’s axe in the first place—he was just licensing the technology.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Did he upgrade the head and handle? If so, it's still your grandpa's axe. Did you upgrade the axe? It might now be an axe of your own making. If "same" is extended not just to refer to the materials, but refers to fourth-dimensional quantum axe states, the axe stops being your grandpas axe the moment your grandpa isn't chopping with it, but becomes his axe any time he returns to use it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

But the axe has all the same memories and personality. It remembers the good and bad times. It tells you jokes and will help you move a refrigerator on the weekend

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

It is our axe komrad

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

A broken handle means a trip to the hardware store. You explain the red stains away as bbq sauce.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

The dwarfs of ankh-morpork say yes

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I see you have also seen/read John Dies at the End

https://youtu.be/qNOk4yyxE38?si=UkdqJw_uMe2DkLIu

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

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