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[Lucem Ferre]

So you're mad it doesn't work anymore?

[Lucem Ferre]

Because you're always developing. Next.

[SGR]

Originally Posted by elphenor

that's not really satisfactory

it's still a Ship of Theseus

Is every component that makes up the brain replaced by the time you die?

[The Batlord]

Originally Posted by Lucem Ferre

So you're mad it doesn't work anymore?

It pretty clearly worked, son. You wrote mad salty paragraphs.

Originally Posted by elphenor

if we're just our physical brains

then how can we even be said to be the same person, quite literally, when the materials that make up our brain replace themselves

something doesn't add up here big time

is it possible that an exact replica of our conciousness could function as a continuation of ones life?

because intuitively I want to say no, but logically what would be the difference between how it happens now

I guess so long as the electrical and chemical impulses making up your thought processes stay continuous you're as good as you can be. Uploading your brain patterns to a computer or a clone is clearly a copy and not a continuation. Teleportation is just cloning with extra steps. I'd be more worried about falling asleep. Your brain doesn't stop but is that really you waking up?

[The Batlord]

Originally Posted by SoundgardenRocks

Is every component that makes up the brain replaced by the time you die?

Actually I think I've read that certain brain cells aren't replaced but I'm not sure and I don't know which ones.

[Lucem Ferre]

Sure, okay.

Seems more like you were salty about being clowned on TBH.

But I still am super salty about the two most vigilante commulists not being able to give any useful or coherent information to help educate me on it so I had to put in tons of work to sift through all of the uneducated bull**** to actually learn anything. These two fools let me believe socialism is when the state controls the means of production and commulism is when the people control the means of production. Like, I asked and they let me believe that was basically true.

[SGR]

Originally Posted by The Batlord

Actually I think I've read that certain brain cells aren't replaced but I'm not sure and I don't know which ones.

I thought it was mainly the brain cells in the hippocampus that get replaced. Others might have some level of regeneration, but not full replacement. I believe antidepressants mimic the process of replacing cells in the hippocampus to give those with depression some kind of mitigation with their negative feelings.

But anyways, I'm almost positive that not everything in the brain is replaced. We come equipped with 100 billion brain cells at birth and I'd be willing to bet that not every one of them is replaced.

[Lucem Ferre]

Don't all of our cells get replaced?

[SGR]

Originally Posted by Lucem Ferre

Don't all of our cells get replaced?

I don't think so.

I think a large majority of our cells die and new ones take their place but for certain parts of our body, that is not the case. Besides the direct replacement of cells, I believe our stem cells have the ability to create copies via mitosis.

Just doing a quick google search now that I'm interested, I found the following from LiveScience (not the best source, but I doubt its really off the mark):

Originally Posted by Live Science

Red blood cells live for about four months, while white blood cells live on average more than a year. Skin cells live about two or three weeks. Colon cells have it rough: They die off after about four days. Sperm cells have a life span of only about three days, while brain cells typically last an entire lifetime (neurons in the cerebral cortex, for example, are not replaced when they die).

https://www.livescience.com/33179-do...ven-years.html

[Lucem Ferre]

And lsd helps grow brain cells. Or mushrooms. IDK. One of them does.