Wednesday, April 4, 2012

The Ship of Theseus


In my opinion the Ship of Theseus is not the same ship it once was. It may have the name of the first ship and look exactly the same but it’s different. It was not made for a purpose you can say, people just restore things to keep it for a very long time but in reality they don’t use it. They only look at it and keep it, it’s like when people love there pet so much that when after their pet is gone they get it stuffed. The animal is not the same anymore, it doesn’t have movement its dead. Another example is how scientist clone things (animals, plats, etc.) they are not the same as the real thing. Like in one experiment with a sheep named Dolly they cloned her from her mother. She had the same chromosomes as her mother but didn’t have another parent, so she was not exactly like her mother. Anyways back to the ship even though it may look exactly the same as the original Ship of Theseus it can’t be. I can really say that once you restore something or create the same exact thing over again it is not the same and that first copy.

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