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David Wants to Go to Another Dimension

Okay, okay, sorry, I gotta keep going because there's a lot to cover here. Okay, then I looked up paradoxes. I'm like really into paradoxes. The guys, this already sounds like I did the, the DMT, but I didn't. Um, this is speaking of wood. Have you heard of the, the Theseus paradox? No. Okay, so it's the Ship of Theseus is a thought experiment from ancient Greece. This is really fucking interesting. The story goes the hero Theseus had a wooden ship preserved for years. As planks rotted, they were replaced one by one until eventually every single piece of wood had been swapped out. So here's the question: if every part has been replaced, is it still the same ship? It's really interesting. Whoa. Is that not crazy? Now let me expand that for you so you could really, so you could really understand it. Okay. Now imagine someone collected all the original planks that they took off the ship and rebuilt the ship somewhere else using the old wood. Now you have two ships of Theseus. Which one is the real one? The one that kept its identity over time, or the one made of the original materials? Ooh, that's fucking crazy.

March 4, 202614:10David
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David13:56
I don't know. Yeah. I just think of like things live in it.
Jason13:59
You like diamonds, Nat? You want a big rock one day, or would you like a big wood—
Natalie14:05
just a big piece of wood? Uh, no, no. Yeah, I could— I want a good-sized diamond for sure.
David14:10
Okay, okay, sorry, I gotta keep going because there's a lot to cover here. Okay, then I looked up paradoxes. I'm like really into paradoxes. The guys, this already sounds like I did the, the DMT, but I didn't. Um, this is speaking of wood. Have you heard of the, the Theseus paradox? No. Okay, so it's the Ship of Theseus is a thought experiment from ancient Greece. This is really fucking interesti…
Natalie15:23
That's wild. What would you say?
David15:24
What's your— I don't know. That's why it's a paradox. I think it's like a 50. I think that's fucking insane.
Jason15:30
It's like two ways of saying—