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The bad ending: On his way out, Thomas passes a twisted piece of metal hanging from a hook. It is his soul, which has been removed from him, and it is eternally screaming.
The good ending: And so Thomas reached immortality, his old parts melted down to make his new parts, and in time he came to rule his island nation.
Train of Theseus
GENUINELY AN ISSUE THAT RAILWAY MUSEUMS AND HISTORIANS HAVE TO CONTEND WITH AND I’M NOT EVEN JOKING.
“And that guy who’s made of all my broken parts is a real asshole.”
Following quantitative logic, his Thomasness decreases with each part being replaced.
If parts of the brain could be replaced with machines, how many would need to be replaced before you are no longer human?
Still counts as a cyborg until the last cell is replaced.
Do cyborgs get human rights or not?
Early cyborgs already exist so yes! Wouldn’t a human with an artificial Theseus brain get rights too?
Not to mention the mechanic always messes with thomas’ kaboose
In Beauty and the Beast, what would happen if you gradually and systematically replaced every piece in Cogsworth’s body?
Given that the waking candlestick can bend without fatiguing the metal of his form to the point of breaking, it’s safe to say there is an active component to the magic that is sustaining their forms.
Given that the feather duster maid was seen to have her feathers forcibly removed, we can also assume they can be damaged and have parts removed.
The question is if they retain their soul, the abstract idea of who they are, in the individual parts of their body or in the collection of the whole.
Depending on the answer, he would either transfer his soul to the new part and assimilate it, fail to integrate the foreign and non-magical part, or grow a replacement part and force the foreign object out of his body.
Thanks for coming to my TED talk.
What if I disassemble Cogsworth completely, set the parts out on a table, come back in ten years, and then put him back together?
What if the curse was broken before the reassembly? Would it stay clock parts or would you end up with a mess on your table?
