From the Vault: The Ship of Theseus
Stuff To Blow Your Mind
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4.3 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 16 November 2019
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
An ancient ship rots in the harbor and so we restore it piece by piece until nothing of the original ship remains. Is it still the same ship? Join Robert and Joe as they discuss one of history’s more mind-boggling thought experiments. (Originall published Aug. 21, 2018)
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| 1:42.4 | Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind. My name is Robert Lam. |
| 1:45.6 | And I'm Joe McCormick and it's Saturday time for a vault episode. This classic episode of |
| 1:50.8 | Stuff to Blow Your Mind originally aired August 21st, 2018 and it's our ship of theses episode. |
| 1:56.8 | Yeah, this one's this one's a lot of fun. Like this one gets to it's essentially grounded in |
| 2:01.4 | thought experiment. Very old thought experiment. But one that remains interesting especially when |
| 2:06.6 | implied when applied to things that that seem hard to break up into constituent parts like the |
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