Theseus

The ship of Theseus, also known as Theseus' paradox, is a thought experiment that raises the question of whether an object which has had all of its components replaced remains fundamentally the same object. The paradox is most notably recorded by Plutarch in Life of Theseus from the late first century. Plutarch asked whether a ship which was restored by replacing each and every one of its wooden parts remained the same ship.

So when you are writing a poem. An influencing friend reads and suggests some changes. You make them because it makes the poem better. 
But which poem? The moment there is a change, it's a new one.

You make a piece of art. You sign it on the back. And then the ghosts of insecurities haunt you to sign it. And you do. Is it the same work now?

I can talk people out of suicide. (how I do it is my trade secret).
There is a man trying to throw away his life. I meet him, talk to him, and he changes his mind.
Did I interfere in the balance? Did i change the destiny? Or was his survival the destiny?

You have a brain and hands. The painting made is by whom - the brain or the hands.
The brain conceives it, the hands construct it. Who made it? 

Take this to teams - say Anish Kapoor makes an architectural art piece. Who makes it? He? Or his team?


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it's a ship. and it sails.


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