> The entire thing can be rebuilt and it will still be the real Notre Dame de Paris
This statement is kindof the whole point of the "ship of Theseus" thought experiment.
This statement is kindof the whole point of the "ship of Theseus" thought experiment.
It’s not.
It’s a hypothetical designed to call attention to the exact thing you’re saying: that potentially identity is more than the specific physical parts.
Yes it's my take on the ship of Theseus problem.
In that problem we re asked to consider if a ship with all it's parts replaced is the same as the original..
My argument is that so long as the ship is being used for the same purpose by the same people then it is. Without a purpose, wood in the shape of a ship is not even necessarily a ship
Things are more than just their physical form.
What makes Notre Dame, is that people generally agree it is still Notre Dame. If hypothetically we were in a time of modernism craze, and that our government decided to rebuilt it in some modern style (there actually was proposals like that), it would still be the people who makes it Notre Dame de Paris or not.