>>80898192Ship of Theseus. read up on it.
And you're now aware that
- elementary particles are completely indistinguishable and interchangeable.
- the water content of your body gets exchanged within a few days iirc
- even the matter in your bones gets completely replaced within decades, and that's consists immobilized compounds
- your sense of self is shaped through experience. through memory. as you gain new memories your self changes. you are dead, long live the new you
Seriously, if i made a reasonably good copy of your body, disposed of the old one and did all that while you were unconscious you wouldn't know any better. How could you? Your last memory would have been going to sleep... just shutting down your consciousness as you do every day anyway.