I believe I solved the problem of material identity back in first year philosophy where I explained to my tutor that people aren't ships and cells aren't planks of wood. Imagine if you created an android with intrisically malleable metal to store data and change shape on, and you wired the central processing unit (Made out of the same kind of metal) to positively charge all metal 'cells' every day unless a significant amount of the CPU was taken out or was different at any single moment. Then change one 'cell' of metal once every day for the rest of time and see what you get.
Allow for some difference between nerves, organs, skin and blood cells and that's essentially us.
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“I always believe the movies I've made are smarter than the way they are perceived by sort of mass culture and by the critics,” Snyder said, a statement he immediately followed by saying, “Also, ‘It looks like a video game.’
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