• lowleveldata@programming.dev
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    1
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    edit-2
    5 months ago

    Yet you won’t argue that you are the earth. Why would you argue that a turtle is the same as a turtle’s shell then?

    • PrimeErective@startrek.website
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      5 months ago

      Where can you really draw the line? Could you survive in space without any air or equipment? Even if you could, where did the equipment and air come from?

      Photosynthetic organisms are for all practical purposes part of your lungs

      • lowleveldata@programming.dev
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        5 months ago

        Me needing something doesn’t make that thing me, right? I need the sun to survive but neither the sun is part of me / I am part of the sun. Like, are you your skeleton? What about the other parts that are not bones then?