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Perspectives on Evolution
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RE: Perspectives on Evolution
(September 30, 2017 at 11:00 am)bennyboy Wrote:
(September 30, 2017 at 7:26 am)Anomalocaris Wrote: Yes.  You don’t “age”.   Your cells get replaced by a new set of cells which are more decrepit. In fact you don’t even exist as a person, but a statistical phenomenon. That which was you is mostly gone.  A whole new set of cells in poorer condition now make up a new bag of mostly water that had stolen your identity.
Now you're getting somewhere!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus

Pertinent passage, for my money:

Quote:Ted Sider and others have proposed that considering objects to extend across time as four-dimensional causal series of three-dimensional "time-slices" could solve the ship of Theseus problem because, in taking such an approach, all four dimensional objects remain numerically identical to themselves while allowing individual time-slices to differ from each other. The aforementioned river, therefore, comprises different three-dimensional time-slices of itself while remaining numerically identical to itself across time; one can never step into the same river-time-slice twice, but one can step into the same (four-dimensional) river twice.

Obviously doesn't pertain directly to an abstract such as evolution, but could be fairly applied to the species model, passing through time.

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Perspectives on Evolution - by bennyboy - September 27, 2017 at 9:46 am
RE: Perspectives on Evolution - by JackRussell - September 27, 2017 at 9:53 am
RE: Perspectives on Evolution - by TheBeardedDude - September 27, 2017 at 9:56 am
RE: Perspectives on Evolution - by FatAndFaithless - September 27, 2017 at 9:58 am
RE: Perspectives on Evolution - by TheBeardedDude - September 27, 2017 at 10:01 am
RE: Perspectives on Evolution - by FatAndFaithless - September 27, 2017 at 10:09 am
RE: Perspectives on Evolution - by Gawdzilla Sama - September 27, 2017 at 10:16 am
RE: Perspectives on Evolution - by Minimalist - September 27, 2017 at 11:28 am
RE: Perspectives on Evolution - by JackRussell - September 27, 2017 at 10:03 am
RE: Perspectives on Evolution - by bennyboy - September 27, 2017 at 7:29 pm
RE: Perspectives on Evolution - by Gawdzilla Sama - September 27, 2017 at 7:36 pm
RE: Perspectives on Evolution - by SteveII - September 27, 2017 at 8:15 pm
RE: Perspectives on Evolution - by Anomalocaris - September 27, 2017 at 8:17 pm
RE: Perspectives on Evolution - by Gawdzilla Sama - September 27, 2017 at 10:06 am
RE: Perspectives on Evolution - by Gawdzilla Sama - September 27, 2017 at 11:44 am
RE: Perspectives on Evolution - by brewer - September 27, 2017 at 11:57 am
RE: Perspectives on Evolution - by Neo-Scholastic - September 27, 2017 at 12:03 pm
RE: Perspectives on Evolution - by The Grand Nudger - September 27, 2017 at 12:57 pm
RE: Perspectives on Evolution - by TheBeardedDude - September 27, 2017 at 2:02 pm
RE: Perspectives on Evolution - by ignoramus - September 28, 2017 at 3:51 am
RE: Perspectives on Evolution - by TheBeardedDude - September 28, 2017 at 6:59 am
RE: Perspectives on Evolution - by Anomalocaris - September 28, 2017 at 7:03 am
RE: Perspectives on Evolution - by TheBeardedDude - September 28, 2017 at 9:11 am
RE: Perspectives on Evolution - by Gawdzilla Sama - September 27, 2017 at 1:49 pm
RE: Perspectives on Evolution - by Alex K - September 27, 2017 at 3:04 pm
RE: Perspectives on Evolution - by FatAndFaithless - September 27, 2017 at 3:11 pm
RE: Perspectives on Evolution - by bennyboy - September 27, 2017 at 7:36 pm
RE: Perspectives on Evolution - by Thumpalumpacus - September 27, 2017 at 10:32 pm
RE: Perspectives on Evolution - by JackRussell - September 27, 2017 at 3:11 pm
RE: Perspectives on Evolution - by I_am_not_mafia - September 27, 2017 at 4:26 pm
RE: Perspectives on Evolution - by Gawdzilla Sama - September 27, 2017 at 4:44 pm
RE: Perspectives on Evolution - by Anomalocaris - September 27, 2017 at 5:24 pm
RE: Perspectives on Evolution - by Astonished - September 27, 2017 at 11:45 pm
RE: Perspectives on Evolution - by bennyboy - September 28, 2017 at 1:08 am
RE: Perspectives on Evolution - by Gawdzilla Sama - September 28, 2017 at 6:56 am
RE: Perspectives on Evolution - by bennyboy - September 28, 2017 at 5:35 pm
RE: Perspectives on Evolution - by Gawdzilla Sama - September 28, 2017 at 5:36 pm
RE: Perspectives on Evolution - by popeyespappy - September 28, 2017 at 10:36 am
RE: Perspectives on Evolution - by Anomalocaris - September 28, 2017 at 10:45 am
RE: Perspectives on Evolution - by bennyboy - September 28, 2017 at 5:42 pm
RE: Perspectives on Evolution - by Anomalocaris - September 28, 2017 at 9:06 pm
RE: Perspectives on Evolution - by bennyboy - September 28, 2017 at 11:10 pm
RE: Perspectives on Evolution - by Anomalocaris - September 29, 2017 at 7:52 am
RE: Perspectives on Evolution - by Thumpalumpacus - September 29, 2017 at 8:56 pm
RE: Perspectives on Evolution - by The Grand Nudger - September 28, 2017 at 5:45 pm
RE: Perspectives on Evolution - by bennyboy - September 28, 2017 at 5:59 pm
RE: Perspectives on Evolution - by The Grand Nudger - September 28, 2017 at 6:07 pm
RE: Perspectives on Evolution - by bennyboy - September 28, 2017 at 7:10 pm
RE: Perspectives on Evolution - by Whateverist - September 28, 2017 at 6:13 pm
RE: Perspectives on Evolution - by The Grand Nudger - September 28, 2017 at 8:47 pm
RE: Perspectives on Evolution - by bennyboy - September 28, 2017 at 9:01 pm
RE: Perspectives on Evolution - by chimp3 - September 28, 2017 at 9:07 pm
RE: Perspectives on Evolution - by The Grand Nudger - September 28, 2017 at 9:10 pm
RE: Perspectives on Evolution - by I_am_not_mafia - September 29, 2017 at 2:21 am
RE: Perspectives on Evolution - by bennyboy - September 29, 2017 at 4:21 am
RE: Perspectives on Evolution - by Sal - September 29, 2017 at 4:46 am
RE: Perspectives on Evolution - by bennyboy - September 29, 2017 at 5:43 am
RE: Perspectives on Evolution - by Gawdzilla Sama - September 29, 2017 at 7:10 am
RE: Perspectives on Evolution - by Anomalocaris - September 29, 2017 at 8:05 am
RE: Perspectives on Evolution - by ignoramus - September 29, 2017 at 5:51 am
RE: Perspectives on Evolution - by Gawdzilla Sama - September 29, 2017 at 8:01 am
RE: Perspectives on Evolution - by The Grand Nudger - September 29, 2017 at 9:44 am
RE: Perspectives on Evolution - by bennyboy - September 29, 2017 at 8:17 pm
RE: Perspectives on Evolution - by Succubus - September 29, 2017 at 8:43 pm
RE: Perspectives on Evolution - by Anomalocaris - September 30, 2017 at 7:26 am
RE: Perspectives on Evolution - by bennyboy - September 30, 2017 at 11:00 am
RE: Perspectives on Evolution - by Thumpalumpacus - September 30, 2017 at 7:02 pm
RE: Perspectives on Evolution - by The Grand Nudger - September 29, 2017 at 10:09 pm
RE: Perspectives on Evolution - by bennyboy - September 30, 2017 at 6:53 am
RE: Perspectives on Evolution - by The Grand Nudger - September 30, 2017 at 9:13 am
RE: Perspectives on Evolution - by bennyboy - September 30, 2017 at 11:11 am
RE: Perspectives on Evolution - by Brian37 - September 30, 2017 at 7:40 pm
RE: Perspectives on Evolution - by Gawdzilla Sama - September 30, 2017 at 11:10 am
RE: Perspectives on Evolution - by The Grand Nudger - September 30, 2017 at 11:19 am
RE: Perspectives on Evolution - by Brian37 - September 30, 2017 at 11:26 am
RE: Perspectives on Evolution - by Mermaid - September 30, 2017 at 11:36 am
RE: Perspectives on Evolution - by Gawdzilla Sama - September 30, 2017 at 11:37 am
RE: Perspectives on Evolution - by ignoramus - September 30, 2017 at 7:23 pm



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