atoms in our human body are replaced every 5-7 years

@HannibalAteMeOut no it happens in several different ways and durations. but they eventually all get replaced

@HannibalAteMeOut you were a different person in your previous age group, atomically

@deadgerbil yes. but i've hardly changed lol

@Axeroberts sure but one atom doesn't hold a thought, it's many many atoms that do, so if one of them gets replaced now, another tomorrow, another in 3 years, all of them just for one thought, the thought can go through the process and get stored and nothing will happen to it (of course memories do fade and many end up being subjective and even not real in the future). But atoms being replaced does not mean rejuvenation or even mutation. Because one atom that is part of one lysosome of one cell for example, you understand it has no power to change anything, especially if it's identical to the one that is replacing it. Plus nobody's telling me that these atoms do not somehow exchange "information". So you know, if I were to replace you at your job, I'd be taught what to do first.

@HannibalAteMeOut i think information has to get passed one atom at a time or there would be nothing after 7 years or so. Like if i had a glass of coke a cola and put a drop of water in every day. It would eventually flow over the glass and eventually end up as a glass of water

@Axeroberts well that seems logical and when we're talking about atoms, their time isn't really our time. It's too small to comprehend. Think of this: how different is one atom of the air you are inhaling right now from another atom that you will inhale in the next second? Can you age in just one second? I mean we do, but in "our" time we don't really.