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...tattoos are permanent? It makes no sense.
...tattoos are permanent? It makes no sense.
FTFYIf that also includes brain cells, then how come anti-helmet people don't change their (wrong) point of view........
Nothing needs fixing with my au natural view, just with the polystyrene brigade.....FTFY
First, this "seven year replacement" is one of those bits of lazy journalism that has been around for so long that everyone assumes it's true - it isn't. Different bits are replaced at different rates and some bits are never replaced. Second, neurons in the cerebral cortex appear not to be replaced, although many other types of brain cell are added during our lifetimes. And third it's not clear whether ideas reside in the structure at all.If that also includes brain cells, then how come pro-helmet people don't change their ... point of view........
. And third it's not clear whether ideas reside in the structure at all.
Don't get me wrong, I agree with you. Just playing devils advocate.
I blame the wine. And the whiskey
"The ship wherein Theseus and the youth of Athens returned from Crete had thirty oars, and was preserved by the Athenians down even to the time ofDemetrius Phalereus, for they took away the old planks as they decayed, putting in new and stronger timber in their place, in so much that this ship became a standing example among the philosophers, for the logical question of things that grow; one side holding that the ship remained the same, and the other contending that it was not the same."
—Plutarch, Theseus[2]
Plutarch thus questions whether the ship would remain the same if it were entirely replaced, piece by piece. Centuries later, the philosopher Thomas Hobbes introduced a further puzzle, wondering: what would happen if the original planks were gathered up after they were replaced, and used to build a second ship.
[3] Which ship, if either, is the original Ship of Theseus?
And then of course there's Trigger in Only Fools, who gets an award for keeping the same broom for 20 years, tho' it has in that time had 17 new heads and 14 new handles.