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#the world's end is the theseus ship paradox and it's driving me mad
spicy-cleanness · 1 year
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so there's a moment in the world's end, where gary appear in front of musketeers in the car.
"wow it's exactly like your old car"
"it IS the same car, I just changed..." and he starts to name details. but he names probably all details that car may have.
so basically he says "it's the same car, I just changed one by one every part of it, but it's the same".
this is a theseus ship paradox in a nutshell.
according to wiki: "if each individual part of the Ship of Theseus was replaced, one at a time, was it still the same ship?"
if each individual part of the Beast was replaced, one at a time?...
and my thought was "huh. they putted theseus ship in gary's words, who definitely know nothig about paradox. funny".
and then they go to the town.
and find out they don't feel any joy of it.
"the town is the same. we changed".
and then they find out blanked.
"we're the same. town changed."
but. the question is. if every citizen was replaced by blanked, one at a time, is it the same town?
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