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by Leszek 2398 days ago
There's likely an interesting Ship of Theseus debate to be had about whether these are indeed thousand-year-old windmills, and whether it's accurate to consider the windmills build a thousand years ago to be "still standing".
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'In one of the most iconic scenes in British television comedy, Trigger, the butt of so many ‘Only Fools and Horses’ jokes, proudly reveals that he has used the same road sweeping brush for his entire career. “This old broom”, he says “ has had 17 new heads and 14 new handles”. We, the audience, are laughing at his apparent stupidity long before Sid points out “how the hell is it the same bloody broom then?”'
Only Fools and Horses, Ship of Theseus edition, wait till you see Plato fall through the bar.
"This is not the same river! All the water is new!"
And of course there is a “Wait but Why” article about that...

PS: scroll down to “Continuity”

https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/12/what-makes-you-you.html

Well so are you. None of you exists from ten years ago. Are you still you?
I have a few tatoos that are way older than 10 years. So at least the bits with ink in them are still there.
Yes. The dead parts can remain. The living parts change. Weird stuff are we.