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If you take a sock with a hole in it
15 years ago
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And you patch up the hole with different fabric, is it the same sock?
Well, yes, obviously, that's a silly question. It's the same sock with a patch on it.
But what if you keep patching up holes in the sock as they appear, and eventually the sock is made up entirely of patches?
If no physical parts of the original remain, is it still the same sock?
Well, yes, obviously, that's a silly question. It's the same sock with a patch on it.
But what if you keep patching up holes in the sock as they appear, and eventually the sock is made up entirely of patches?
If no physical parts of the original remain, is it still the same sock?
Or, as Terry Pratchett puts it- "It is the thing and the whole of the thing."
...Then you can masturbate in it, yes, I know.
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*looks at rest of journal*
ooooooohh...hmm...quite the mystery, yes.
The answer is, clearly, that it depends on if the patchwork sock remembers having ever been the original sock.