I was not proficient with this topic, so had to look it up:
The Ship of Theseus, also known as Theseus’s Paradox, is a paradox and a common thought experiment about whether an object is the same object after having all of its original components replaced over time, typically one after the other.
In Greek mythology, Theseus, the mythical king of the city of Athens, rescued the children of Athens from King Minos after slaying the minotaur and then escaped onto a ship going to Delos. Each year, the Athenians would commemorate this by taking the ship on a pilgrimage to Delos to honour Apollo. A question was raised by ancient philosophers: After several hundreds of years of maintenance, if each individual piece of the Ship of Theseus were replaced, one after the other, was it still the same ship?
It’s like how ‘Lynyrd Skynyrd’ is still touring with zero original members
Thanks for explanation
Lotta greek mythology/philosophy on lemmy this week…
What’s going on
We moved on from beans.
Did we, though?
What is going on? Or Why is it going on? For this is what we shall ponder
Wait
Helen of Troy? Is this a crossover?
Theseus is the guy who kidnapped Helen of Troy! Or that’s what the stories tell us. Maybe it was the ship’s fault!
