Nearly every atom in your body is swapped out over the years, so in a real sense you aren’t made of the same material you were a decade ago — yet you feel like the same person
The body feels like a fixed object because consciousness rides inside it without interruption. You wake up in the same face, answer to the same name, remember the same childhood and carry the same…
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