Imagine if all hardware in your life was like iPads. You could be swapping out all atoms continuously, maintaining continuity via bits. The solution to the ship of Theseus conundrum is obvious. If the unique identifying bits are all backed up to the cloud, it’s the same ship.
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But in practice, clean separation of abstract global device state and hardware is somewhat newer due to fixed configurations in vertically integrated devices
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i have had the same linux ghost in its fourth or fifth shell for about 13 years; it's only the second one like it (debian → ubuntu in 2006; prior to that same deal with debian since ~1999?)
just keep putting the same disk in the new carcass, then later get a new disk, etc…
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