how many replacement parts until a rig is pretty much an entirely different pc? What's the oldest part you still got in your rig?
>>730844312speakers
>>730844312With all my PCs it's generally old HDDs that carry along between fresh builds. I ride them until the SMART errors start
>>730844312i replace monitors and the tower but my g502 mouse and Z623 2.1 speakers have been with me since 2014
If you replace the motherboard it's a new PC.
>>730844312No because it doesn't produce its own "plans" and "workers". Outside resources is not the issue.
>>730844312if peripherals count, then my monitor and speakers are both 17 years old nowinside the pc I think one of my ssds is something like 10 years old
>>730844312Not a paradox.It doesn't matter if the entire ship has been replaced, its essence (or "soul" if you will) is still that of the ship that was originally built.It's the exact same reason why piracy isn't theft.
>>730844312The PC is the motherboard. End of line. Change the motherboard, it's a new build.
>>730844847>Not a paradox.All a paradox is is a situation that runs contrary to expectation. To head you off at the pass, self-contradiction is only one variety of paradox, it is not universal to the concept.
>>730844312What if you replaced your PC parts with balls?
>>7308447082/2This is also why portals that deconstruct and reconstruct you would never work.
>>730845052NOSTOPNOT AGAIN
>>730844847Ok but what if when you removed every part of the ship you stored them and then perfectly reassembled them 1 year after the last piece was removed?
>>730844312your rig is your mobo. replace that, and it's a new rig
>>730844312>>730845357
>>730844312I can't quit the weed so i buy shitty used parts and blame that instead of the air quality when things break quickly. I think my oldest is my SSD running strong 8 years now.
>>730845340That's even less of a paradox than the OP
My PSU is from 2012 and one of my displays is from 2008>>730845457Needs more survivorship bias
>>730844786Ypu are going to feel like a retard when you finally upgrade your monitor. After I upgraded i felt like was living in squalor and didnt realize it.
>>730844312As long as you retain some core files between builds, it will always be the same PC.Fight me.
>>730845340Depends who built it
>>730844312when you format the drives
Only when can you can define what the identity of a PC can you say what it isn't. Is it the data that represents a PC or its electronics?
>>7308443644 Noctua fans, 1 Hitachi ultrastar 2 tb hdd , and a 500gb Samsung sata ssd that I bought for my first build in 2016 are still being used without issue in my current PC that I just upgraded in August. But honestly this one does feel like a different pc.
>>730844312It's all the same PC, same with it all being the same ship. Titles and identity is a concept, not a physical law.On a meta-physical level, replacing even a single component makes it a separate "thing". But there's good reason we don't threat things like that.
