Very true. We replace most atoms in our body every year or two. So really what are we?
The best explanation I have found is to compare ourselves to a whirlpool in a river. Sure if you take a snapshot of any moment of it's existence you can identify water and dirt and whatnot that forms the whirlpool at that moment but shortly after the whirlpool is composed of completely different molecules.
We are best described as self-sustaining patterns. Whatever that pattern is, it is not the material stuff it is composed of at any one point in time.
The best explanation I have found is to compare ourselves to a whirlpool in a river. Sure if you take a snapshot of any moment of it's existence you can identify water and dirt and whatnot that forms the whirlpool at that moment but shortly after the whirlpool is composed of completely different molecules.
We are best described as self-sustaining patterns. Whatever that pattern is, it is not the material stuff it is composed of at any one point in time.
Everything I needed to know about life I learned on Dagobah.
