The Ship of Theseus
Take a myth, make a movie, add a book... can it ever be the same?
When a blind photographer takes a picture, does the image truly exist?
Aliya is a photographer who doesn't allow her visual disability to limit her in any way. Know her story when you watch the Ship Of Theseus the movie.
Herein lies a short Thesues on how change is effected:
Apparently there's some 'S', where 'S' is the amount of time it takes for each molecule in the human body to be replaced, so that the human body does not contain any of the original molecules it consisted of at birth. Perhaps it's best to think of x as a variable rather than a coefficient. Perhaps my x = 2 years. Every two years I become a different person in the shape and image of my former self. The idea is that Theseus has a ship which is so old, and has been repaired so often, that none of its original timbers remains: is it the same ship? Michael Clark uncovers an arrangement of conundrums, specified as Achilles and the Tortoise, Theseus' Ship, Hempel's Raven, and the Prisoners' Dilemma, attractive in subjects as pied as knowledge, ethics, science, art and social relation.
The paradox was first raised in Greek legend as reported by Plutarch,
"The ship wherein Theseus and the youth of Athens returned from Crete had thirty oars, and was preserved by the Athenians down even to the time of Demetrius Phalereus, for they took away the old planks as they decayed, putting in new and stronger timber in their place, in so much that this ship became a standing example among the philosophers, for the logical question of things that grow; one side holding that the ship remained the same, and the other contending that it was not the same."
-Plutarch, Theseus
Ok, so she has a sister, a twin if you will. You sleep with them both and then have to choose which is the lover you love the best. If there was a paradox of Theseus’ lover (like Theseus’ ship), all lust aside, it would give the lustful person no anxiety - who cares to identify with the act as opposed to the person or can’t know the difference? There are plenty of fish in the amorphous sea, but “The sea is such a harsh mistress.” - A drunken sailor
Steven Pinker, a cognitive neuroscientist and author of How the Mind Works, poses the following hypothetical premise, which is an example of the Ship of Theseus paradox:
A variation on the posthuman theme is the notion of the "Posthumous God"; the idea that posthumans, being no longer confined to the parameters of "humanness", might grow spiritually or magically, physically and mentally so powerful as to appear possibly god-like by human standards. Here we are self-centered despots wanting to be gods. Let’s slow cook the frogs... Surgeons replace one of your neurons with a microchip that duplicates its input-output functions. You feel and behave exactly as before. Then they replace a second one, and a third one, and so on, until more and more of your brain becomes silicon electromagentic transference. Since each microchip does exactly what the neuron did, well not exactly, your behavior and memory never change or the change goes unnoticed. Do you even notice the difference? Does it feel like dying? Is some other conscious entity moving in with you or moving within you?
In a keynote address at the London Book Festival in 2013, best-selling author Neil Gaiman said, "one of the things that we should definitely be doing in digital in the world of publishing is making books-physical books-that are prettier, finer, and better."
The thip of The’seus: JJ Abrams
A beautifully bound offering full of postcards, notes and photocopied telegrams is a story-within-a-story-within-a-story. There's a narrative handwritten in the margins by two university students, Jen and Eric, whose relationship grows as they explore the true nature of Ship of Theseus. However, like everything in the book, Jen and Eric are not quite what they seem. Stay with the Ship of Theseus's amnesiac narrative of mutinies and political upheaval, or explore the footnotes down some mysterious alley (there's even a code wheel in the back of the book) or go all-out and read the three narratives at once.
Written by V. M. Straka, a fictional author whose true identity is unknown even to his closest friends, "Ship of Theseus" tells the story of a man known only as S. He has no past that he can remember, and he ends up becoming the primary passenger on a strange ship with an even stranger crew. His journey takes him through a tale of power, corruption and assassination. These themes echo what is known of Straka's own life, as he was a political dissident accused of a variety of highly influential crimes, including the murder of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
On the back cover, "S." is described as "Abrams and Dorst's love letter to the written word," but it also acts as a love letter to books themselves and to traditional publishing in an increasingly digitized age.
A handy postcard-sized guide to programming languages to help people get the right concatenation, here's a quick list:
Godwin's Law: Cobol
Murphy's Law: C
Ship of Theseus: Java
Olber's Paradox: Perl
Godel's Incompleteness Theorum: Ada
Cars/Libraries of Congress: Fortran
Russel's Paradox: LISP
Fermat's Last Theorum: Assembly
The Peter Principle: C++
Clarke's First Law: Python
Clarke's Third Law: Smalltalk
Sturgeon's Law: Visual Basic
Okrent's Law: Prolog
When one part of a whole is changed, does the whole remain the same? - Prakash Gowda
When a blind photographer takes a picture, does the image truly exist?
Aliya is a photographer who doesn't allow her visual disability to limit her in any way. Know her story when you watch the Ship Of Theseus the movie.
Herein lies a short Thesues on how change is effected:
Apparently there's some 'S', where 'S' is the amount of time it takes for each molecule in the human body to be replaced, so that the human body does not contain any of the original molecules it consisted of at birth. Perhaps it's best to think of x as a variable rather than a coefficient. Perhaps my x = 2 years. Every two years I become a different person in the shape and image of my former self. The idea is that Theseus has a ship which is so old, and has been repaired so often, that none of its original timbers remains: is it the same ship? Michael Clark uncovers an arrangement of conundrums, specified as Achilles and the Tortoise, Theseus' Ship, Hempel's Raven, and the Prisoners' Dilemma, attractive in subjects as pied as knowledge, ethics, science, art and social relation.
The paradox was first raised in Greek legend as reported by Plutarch,
"The ship wherein Theseus and the youth of Athens returned from Crete had thirty oars, and was preserved by the Athenians down even to the time of Demetrius Phalereus, for they took away the old planks as they decayed, putting in new and stronger timber in their place, in so much that this ship became a standing example among the philosophers, for the logical question of things that grow; one side holding that the ship remained the same, and the other contending that it was not the same."
-Plutarch, Theseus
Ok, so she has a sister, a twin if you will. You sleep with them both and then have to choose which is the lover you love the best. If there was a paradox of Theseus’ lover (like Theseus’ ship), all lust aside, it would give the lustful person no anxiety - who cares to identify with the act as opposed to the person or can’t know the difference? There are plenty of fish in the amorphous sea, but “The sea is such a harsh mistress.” - A drunken sailor
Steven Pinker, a cognitive neuroscientist and author of How the Mind Works, poses the following hypothetical premise, which is an example of the Ship of Theseus paradox:
A variation on the posthuman theme is the notion of the "Posthumous God"; the idea that posthumans, being no longer confined to the parameters of "humanness", might grow spiritually or magically, physically and mentally so powerful as to appear possibly god-like by human standards. Here we are self-centered despots wanting to be gods. Let’s slow cook the frogs... Surgeons replace one of your neurons with a microchip that duplicates its input-output functions. You feel and behave exactly as before. Then they replace a second one, and a third one, and so on, until more and more of your brain becomes silicon electromagentic transference. Since each microchip does exactly what the neuron did, well not exactly, your behavior and memory never change or the change goes unnoticed. Do you even notice the difference? Does it feel like dying? Is some other conscious entity moving in with you or moving within you?
In a keynote address at the London Book Festival in 2013, best-selling author Neil Gaiman said, "one of the things that we should definitely be doing in digital in the world of publishing is making books-physical books-that are prettier, finer, and better."
The thip of The’seus: JJ Abrams
A beautifully bound offering full of postcards, notes and photocopied telegrams is a story-within-a-story-within-a-story. There's a narrative handwritten in the margins by two university students, Jen and Eric, whose relationship grows as they explore the true nature of Ship of Theseus. However, like everything in the book, Jen and Eric are not quite what they seem. Stay with the Ship of Theseus's amnesiac narrative of mutinies and political upheaval, or explore the footnotes down some mysterious alley (there's even a code wheel in the back of the book) or go all-out and read the three narratives at once.
Written by V. M. Straka, a fictional author whose true identity is unknown even to his closest friends, "Ship of Theseus" tells the story of a man known only as S. He has no past that he can remember, and he ends up becoming the primary passenger on a strange ship with an even stranger crew. His journey takes him through a tale of power, corruption and assassination. These themes echo what is known of Straka's own life, as he was a political dissident accused of a variety of highly influential crimes, including the murder of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
On the back cover, "S." is described as "Abrams and Dorst's love letter to the written word," but it also acts as a love letter to books themselves and to traditional publishing in an increasingly digitized age.
A handy postcard-sized guide to programming languages to help people get the right concatenation, here's a quick list:
Godwin's Law: Cobol
Murphy's Law: C
Ship of Theseus: Java
Olber's Paradox: Perl
Godel's Incompleteness Theorum: Ada
Cars/Libraries of Congress: Fortran
Russel's Paradox: LISP
Fermat's Last Theorum: Assembly
The Peter Principle: C++
Clarke's First Law: Python
Clarke's Third Law: Smalltalk
Sturgeon's Law: Visual Basic
Okrent's Law: Prolog
When one part of a whole is changed, does the whole remain the same? - Prakash Gowda