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> Over the years, nearly everything on the vehicle has been replaced or repaired, and Campbell says the only original part is likely the body, and even that has
by jbeard4 1y ago
> Over the years, nearly everything on the vehicle has been replaced or repaired, and Campbell says the only original part is likely the body, and even that has had work done on it.
It’s the Tercel of Theseus: if every part has been replaced, is it still the same car?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus
- v5v3 1y agoTrigger's Broom https://youtu.be/56yN2zHtofM https://youtu.be/56yN2zHtofM
- xattt 1y agoA bigger question might be is whether the sum of replacement parts is worth less than the sum of the part.
- actionfromafar 1y agoTCO is more interesting IMHO.
- tedk-42 1y agoVIN plate removed too? Maybe the engine block is also the original...
- comprev 1y agoTrigger's broom! [0] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=56yN2zHtofM https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=56yN2zHtofM
- pier25 1y agothis is the comment I was looking for
- vehemenz 1y agoThe answer isn't as sexy as the question. Ontological questions, and therefore mereological questions, are a matter of convention based on how closely-associated relations—like how the "parts" of the "car" function—cohere over space and time.
- rendaw 1y agoWell the odometer's gotta be the same, right? I reckon the soul of a car resides in the odometer.
- yakkers 1y agoIf it's a mechanical one, there's a possibility that it's been repaired or replaced. The mechanism after all these years will likely wear out. At the same time, I know someone with a car whose odometer has been at 249,999km for a few years now. As for (early) digital odometers, does the soul more specifically exist in the EEPROM chip in the instrument cluster* that stores the odometer data? *at least on my late-90s car, this is how the odometer/trip meter works.
- dennis_jeeves2 1y ago>I reckon the soul of a car resides in the odometer. Citation?...
- jschveibinz 1y agoFun fact: The average replacement rate of cells in our bodies (generally speaking) is around 7 to 10 years. So all of our parts have been replaced several times over...
- Retric 1y agoNeurons live much longer than that, also not everything is cells. Parts of your teeth for example can be 80+ years old if you keep em that long.
- Waterluvian 1y agoAre teeth closer to exposed bone or enlodged rocks?
- doubletwoyou 1y agoif teeth were simply rocks it’d be a helluvalot easier to get them replaced if teeth were exposed bone we’d be able to regrow them teeth are their own special thing; toughened enamel with an alive inside
- Waterluvian 1y agoSo what I’m hearing is that they’re rocks that are alive.
- namibj 1y agoBut we can regrow them. We just evolved an anti-teeth-regrowth substance/molecule that's in our blood and shuts down teeth growth once adult teeth are finished, because adult teeth roots are so deep that they require surgery to pull the old teeth out to make space for new. Also historically humans didn't live that long, compared to the decade it takes adult teeth to grow. They're doing phase 2 trials in Japan right now, on children with a birth defect that blocked some teeth from spawning. The medicine is a monoclonal antibody "antiserum" that neutralizes the teeth-growth-blocker.
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- geodel 1y agoYeah, thats the first thought came to my mind as well. It does give me a great deal of satisfaction when a tool, gadget or anything last long with daily use and limited maintenance.
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- stefanka 1y agoEverything but all the diodes down its left hand side
- j45 1y agoThey clarify the body is still original in the article. So nearly everything isn’t everything.
- hermitcrab 1y agoIt is the same broom, it's just had 2 new heads and 3 new handles.