The Ship of Theseus is one of those paradoxes everyone has heard of, and I'm pretty sure I've mentioned it before. But last night I actually sat down to read about it properly, and I went way deeper than I planned to ..

The setup is simple. You have a ship. Over the years you replace every part of it, one at a time, until none of the original pieces are left. Is it still the same ship?

Then it gets better. Say someone kept all the old parts and built a second ship out of them. Now there are two ships, and both have a decent claim to being the original. They can't both be it.

What got me is that this was never really about ships. It's asking what makes anything the same thing over time when everything about it has changed.

Which obviously gets uncomfortable fast when you turn it on yourself. My cells have been replaced. My beliefs have changed. Half my memories are gone or rewritten. So what exactly is doing the work of making me the same person as the kid in my old photos?

I did a a bit research reading abt identity, the self, and the different answers philosophers have given. Some of them dissolve the question entirely by arguing there is no ship, only planks arranged ship-wise. There's a lot more here than I expected.

This is Day 1 .... I was hoping for vm but not today lol

Will share the Resources I used also