The ship of Theseus · 9:55pm Sep 8th, 2023
I have heard the story of the ship of theseus: a vessel you gradually replace, bit by bit, until none of the original remain. Then if you took all the discarded parts and assembled those into a ship, which is the true ship?
I have also heard this likened to the the body of living creature; if each cell is gradually replaced along a person's life, what remains of them at the end is not a separate entity from what they began as. Or even what were were just a few months ago.
What I want to bring to the table, is on the subject of healing. Wounds eventually seal, the body mends cuts and bruises to the extent it is able.
But, it doesn't, does it? It does not heal what was there, it replaces it with new cell; so – something it was doing already. And to that end... it does not actually, do, much of anything, except wait for the damage area to die.
This does not happen just at the wounded area, but all over the body. It doesn't wait to mend one parts, it waits for that whole iteration of you, to be shed off...
Happy Filthy Friday~.
