It’s like the metamorphosis of a caterpillar into a butterfly. It basically melts into a goo inside it’s chrysalis, but apparently it’s been demonstrated that they can retain things they learned before metamorphosis, so…🤷♂️
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TeddE@lemmy.world 4 days ago
But is it the same sponge? Inverse ship of Theseus!
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
TheFogan@programming.dev 4 days ago
I think the star trek transporter debate is more apt.
damdy@lemm.ee 4 days ago
Not after I’m done, never be the same again…
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
I forget which episode it was, but on Last Week Tonight someone compared some process to “turning a fried chicken nugget back into a live chicken.” To which John replied “If you managed that, that chicken would be FUCKED UP. Imagine the poetry it would write, ‘the things that I saw, buck buck bacaw…’”
A sponge can un-puree itself but I bet there’s a kind of scream we can’t hear that it would never stop making.