https://www.spencergreenberg.com/2017/07/brain-of-theseus-a-thought-experiment/ Wed, 17 Dec 2025 18:56:56 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 https://www.spencergreenberg.com/2017/07/brain-of-theseus-a-thought-experiment/#comment-63342 Wed, 17 Dec 2025 18:56:56 +0000 https://www.spencergreenberg.com/?p=1841#comment-63342 There’s another way to interpret the scenario. “Ordinary survival is about as bad as being destroyed and having a Replica.” [Parfit, 1984, p 280] It’s impossible to draw the line of when in the surgeries it is no longer “you” because there is no “you” in that sense even during ordinary survival. We are all just momentary subjects of experience that have memories from past fleeting subjects of experience, but in fact didn’t experience those moments and won’t experience moments in the future

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