[rmc]

Also know as The Ship of Theseus. This problem has been around for thousands of years a d no one's sure what the answer is.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus

[ims]

The problem comes from trying to force a dichotomy between "new" and "not new". This is an interesting article about these types of seeming paradoxes: http://lesswrong.com/lw/no/how_an_algorithm_feels_from_insid...