The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian) / quote 176 of 254
Stability without a core
‘There’s a stability and it’s actually like the stability of everything else in this world. It’s like the stability of the ship of Theseus. There’s no core of the ship of Theseus, but there are some parts that last longer than others and there’s an overall structure and if you keep replacing parts, you can come back in forty years and still recognise it, even though most of the parts have been replaced. What you’re recognising is not just the parts that are still the very parts that you experienced before but the overall organisation of those parts, and even if every part was replaced, you’d still have the ship of Theseus.’