When you reach the core?

"Hey mister, how many bites does it take to make an apples stop being an apple and become me?"

A-one... Ta-hoo!... three~

also sorry I haven't talked atcha much. I've been going through a bit of a depression- I spare people my sadboxing.

so then what does turn into humans?

The amino acids which are in the nutrients of the apple that was digested.

Through cellular metamorphosis and natural selection?

Soylent Green.
Oh wait, I have that backwards....

buhahahahaha!!!

good one

Miserable piles of secrets.

I like your answer the most. <:3

Fructose is scavenged as fuel, a few minerals and proteins are co-opted to become basic components for cell-division. The Apple doesn't really become a human, the Apple becomes Feces after it is stripped of what the body considers desirable.

Sort of like the human population and a certain planet.

My spiritual answer is that the apple was already a part of you from the beginning and will remain so until the end. ^^

An apple is a tree's ovary. |D

I'd say it stops being an apple in your mouth, and becomes applesauce. Then in the stomach it gets broken down into nutrients, and finally in the small intestine it becomes a part of you. Because topologically speaking, your entire digestive tract is equivalent to "outside" your body, so nothing passing through it is really a part of you until it passes through the villi into your bloodstream.

Caveat: There will always be part of the apple that remains a piece of apple (unless you eat the core) until it decays, a portion that becomes a part of you through intestinal diffusion, and a portion that becomes feces and leaves your body, never to return (HOPEFULLY).

you deserve a Klein Bottle. =3

probably when the nutrients from said apple enter your bloodstream and are absorbed by your tissues. . . but by then the apple has become something else during its. . .journey.</science>

When does an animal stop being an animal and become food, and at what point does it become legally acceptable to have sex with a chicken? After it's dead? After it's dressed? Cooked? Gross I know, but something interesting to think about. Some guy got arrested for doin it with a dead deer, but there are people that admittedly get frisky with poultry before they cook it, and no one cares. When does it become food and stop being an animal?

I was just reading about the dead deer dude.

when you eat the seeds.

I go by that falosify, "You are what you eat" ...though, i usually dont think on the question, i belive that the apple, becomes you when you digest it, becuse then the spirit of the apple becomes part of your being, which gives its energy into you.

And it gose...something like that... *tosses the apple core in her maw and swallows*

When the stomach acid breaks it down and nutrients are absorbed through the small intestine - then you shit it out. Apples become shit in humans, its true.

This is exactly why invisible men don't work
At least, not the hollywood I-men.

Why does the apple have to become me? Why can I not become an apple? It's the worst kind of discrimination!

Let's just make it easy and say that everything ultimately becomes phlegm. If a doctor can't tell what it is, it's phlegm!

Also, this.

To any of those questions that people go off on, my answer is simply, It is, what it is. Answers everything, one way or another, simple and correct. If it wasn't, then it wouldn't be :P

That's just the thing, there is no difference. :3 There are no lines separating one energy from another, we are all part of the same whole. "Apple" is just a word given for a certain kind of energy, it makes things a hell of a lot easier to understand! But in actuality, the apple does not exist.

Ah, the "everything is just a complex fold in spacetime" theory.

All that matters is how delicious said apple is.

When asking existential questions expect hypothetical answers.

Or, in laymans lingo.

When it becomes poo.

you know these are the random things that people just think about and pass off, but when you really stop and think about it, these are really some good philosphical questions, not that I have an answer too the. damn, and I still think in a british accent...vexing.

NEVER! The apple and myself are two different things. The apple may provide me nutrition, but this nutrition, converted to energy, is expelled over time, and the unused portion is disposed after full processing. The apple never truly becomes me, because I use the apple to continue existing. Even if portions of the apple become stored within my fat cells, the excess can always be converted into energy at a later date through exercise or whatnot.

Oh, and I love apples. ^_^

When it gone! ^-^ Heehe! I a good change of thought! Thanks for thinking question!

Pft, people are thinking way too hard about this, everything you need to know you can easily learn from videogames. It's quite obvious really:

It becomes you when it disappears off the screen and you see your hit points increase.

Heh excellent answer. XD

if you follow the Taoist believe, then you and the apple are already one even if you two are on opposite sides of the universe.

all things are one thing

yeah, that helps me way late at night when I'm jerking off alone for the 997th time after 4 years of undesired abstinence, ya gotta do SOMETHING to alleviate the loneliness

Agreed. It always was and always will be a part of you and everyone/everything else.

It sounds a lot like Don Marquis's "Robin and the Worm" http://www.altheim.com/lit/robnworm.html

He doesn't punctuate so it might be a bit hard to read.

Most of the apple goes directly to poo :c

I'm going to pretty much say the apple is already a part of us. I mean we all came from this planet and we are (well the apple was at one point) both living beings created by similar elements. Just seems we are overall pretty close but just on different sides.

My answer to everything: Penis.

when you the apple finally reaches the can

You were the apple to begin with.

Apple is ill-defined.
the question is ill-defined.
this is the classic "Log burning" problem.
it points out the shaky structure of definitions.

it depends on what doctrine of Identity you follow, physical continuity, memetic continuity, soul theory.

the answer i figure you'd probably have in mind is... "there is no apple" which.. i must say, although impractical for everyday life... is probably the most valid.

It's much more practical when you consider that question in regards to our own mortality. "Ashes to ashes, dust to dust".

If we were to look at it from a physical continuity perspective we would be able to maintain continuity of the "apple" if we exclude the continuity of the being that eats it. Otherwise humans would not exist and would instead be an amalgamation of things they have consumed.

As for memetic; I don't understand the context that you're talking about, even after looking up the definition of memetic.

after i eat an apple... the idea of it still exists... i can write about this legendary apple... when we all die, we're remembered by our memes, the impression we leave. so in a way, we live on as memes. like Socrates, Sherlock Holmes... some wierd mutated apple that i took a photo of and ate... and created a cult based on it... etc.

ah, that is definitely an interesting perspective :)

you must have some awesome weed....


An apple becomes a part of it's ingestor at the absorption level, This is where our enzymes and acids have come forth to break down and emulsify the apple into a chyme and our intestines absorb the separate components. Water, phosphates, carbon, free floating hydrogen ions that need a bond..
However at the molecular level we may not ever have truly absorbed the apple. Since matter is neither created nor destroyed?
It may have been part of us all along?

it stops being an apple and starts being poo in about 8 hours

The apple remains an apple and you are still you, even if you eat a dozen of them. Or three dozens.

Whatever the amount of apples consumed, the result is still the same - that is, if every apple has the same function: to be eaten. Also, none of them may affect your biological structure or this answer if false.


My answer:

The apple is an apple. And you are you.
The apple is not you (unless it takes you over, which is a different matter) and will not be you.

Satisfied, or shall we go into more depth?

I was prepared to give a biological answer until i saw the comments and realised there is some sort of poetic reference with it or spiritual or some shit. I suck when it comes to analysing poetry. So I guess i'll keep silent on this one.

Physically it transfers when it first gets contact with the mouth...where the transfer of energy first takes place.

"Who are you?"

Or alternatively,

*eats an apple* :9

When you start bowing down to Steve Jobs.