%% [[Deciding]] people:: #people/shankarvedantam Lon Setnik dates:: 2022-12-04 %% *why it is so hard to imagine our future selves when we can see our past selves.* This reminds me of [[Future Lon]] and how he might not share the same views as me. It's kind of like how in the future it is not only others that we will disagree with? It will also be us. This is a metaphor like the ship of Theseus "The **ship of theseus** is a thought experiment about whether an object that has had all of its original components replaced remains the same object. According to legend, Theseus, the mythical Greek founder-king of Athens, had rescued the children of Athens from King Minos after slaying the minotaur and then escaped on a ship to Delos. Every year, the Athenians commemorated this legend by taking the ship on a pilgrimage to Delos to honor Apollo. The question was raised by ancient philosophers: After several centuries of maintenance, if every part of the Ship of Theseus had been replaced, one at a time, was it still the same ship? " > [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship%20of%20Theseus) This matters because "in contemporary philosophy, this thought experiment has applications to the philosophical study of identity over time, and has inspired a variety of proposed solutions in contemporary philosophy of mind concerned with the persistence of personal identity." ### What would the opposite argument be? %% tags: #note/idea %% ## Sources: https://www.ted.com/talks/shankar_vedantam_you_don_t_actually_know_what_your_future_self_wants [Wikipedia: the ship of theseus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus)