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[Anonymous No.16337404]

Our bodies regenerate themselves on the atomic level multiple times throughout our lives. That said, am I a completely different person than I was yesterday? last week? last year?

[Anonymous No.16337410]

>>16337404
You're still a faggot

[Anonymous No.16337477]

>>16337404
Your memories are the same. You are the same faggot. Fucking bugman, man.

[Anonymous No.16337533]

>>16337477
I'm not him but memory isn't that reliable anon

[Anonymous No.16337541]

>>16337477
Your brain is not a computer, your memories are not files, you soulless bugman.

>>16337404
As a stream-of-change, yes, you are, always have been, always will be, without end or beginning, uncreated, undying. As an collection-of-parts, no, you are always changing and will never be the same, ever.

[Anonymous No.16337914]

>>16337404

The quip that the more things change the more they stay the same is grammatically close to the truth. The more change is exerted upon something, the more it not so much STAYS the same but the more it IS the same. That is to say, it actively refines and reveals the quality of its being, rather than passively maintaining itself. This is NOT an "essence" moving through a series of "existences", consecutively consecrating each one as the one that IS before discarding it, a light turning turning on and off through a series of adjacent rooms, both the light and the rooms only being and changing relative to each other. NOT AT ALL. Rather, any particular one immanently is, like THE One, not even like it per se, but IS the One. Change itself being likewise a one, a Monad, look no further than the awesome idea that change NEVER CHANGES, which is not at all "outside" the ones, exerting itself onto them "Newtonianlly", but is fully inside of them as well, or rather fully inside of them first and foremost, like any and all ones are already, and prominently, inside each other, Dialectically.

[Anonymous No.16337985]

>Person
Stays the same throughout your life, disappears forever upon death
>Body
Much like the person, dissolves back into the elements that it was made from upon death
>I
Remains unchanged, stable, permanent throughout infinite lives

Persons have no real existence, they are only ephemeral. They are born, exist, and die. The self on the other hand is timeless, not subject to change. It changes bodies like a person changes clothes.

[Anonymous No.16337994]

YOU ARE NOW A TACO