I was reading Creation - Life and How to Make It by Steve Grand. (This is the book that inspired Jeff Bezos to start the AWS initiative. ) In it he makes the following statement:
Anyhow, by now I hope you have thought of an experience from yoru childhood. Something you remember clearly, something you can see, feel, maybe even smell, as if you were really there. After all, you really were there at the time, weren't you? How else would you remember it? But here is the bombshell: you weren't there. Not a single atom that is in your body today was there when that event took place. Every bit of you has been replaced many times over (which is why you eat , of course)....
That didn't sound quite right to me. How could the atoms in your bones be replaced? Aren't your nerves pretty much fixed in place?
My question is: Are all the atoms in your body replaced with others over a 30 year period?
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