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** Keep in mind this also applies to people. Excluding brain cells, your entire body is completely replaced about once per decade.
*** However that "excluding brain cells" is a pretty big rider, since the brain is often seen as the sole nexus of personhood.
*** No, [https://web.archive.org/web/20121026042749/http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=saving-new-brain-cells brains aren't excluded]. Old neurons die, new ones are made. It's not just to counteract the wear and tear, but part of forming new memories.
*** In addition, our particles are in constant flux. On the lowest observable levels, we aren't the same from one ''nanosecond'' to the next.
*** Even with the cells that stick around for a few years atom that make up the cell wont be same from one month to the next. Your entire body is only a channel for matter, all the atoms in your body wont be within a few months and as creepy as it is a lot of them will probable be in other peoples bodies and vice versa.
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