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Who are we and why do we live?

About You. Did you ever hear about the ship of thesus paradox? It goes something like this. The ship wherein  Theseus  and the youth of  Athens  returned from  Crete  had thirty oars, and was preserved by the Athenians down even to the time of  Demetrius Phalereus , for they took away the old planks as they decayed, putting in new and stronger timber in their places , in so much that this ship became a standing example among the philosophers, for the logical question of things that grow; one side holding that the ship remained the same, and the other contending that it was not the same . —  Plutarch,  Theseus . What does this have to do with you?      Let us say you are your flesh. You loose 30 to 40 thousand of them every minute from your skin alone. So, 3 years down the lane you know it isn't the same flesh. You know most of them are new.      Let us say you are your thoughts/conciousness. Being an intelligent being of whose thoughts keep changing and never has the
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