How is it you still retain your earliest memory but are atomicaly (on a cellular level) a different being now?

Answer 1

Re-call, within the originative metaphysical context, has greater relevancy than "retention". It is this kind of word trickery that such questions depend upon. Timaeus' answer is accurate, but avoids the corrective:

An experience has no need of "retention" to be real. This is a deductive error arising from habitually adducing tokens of Being as the only valuable currency, the end-all with other beings. Such tokens can loosely be said to be "reasons". The Real, the Whole, however, is the ceaseless re-calling of beings into Being that has never stepped aside for the adduction of reasons.

An organized effort, say, on the part of Aristotle, to disclose to the thinking faculty is at the same moment an attempt to break the habits wherein re-call is obstructed by the vanity of "knowing", moreover, the vain demonstration to like-minded initiates. Certain Aristotelian texts have been lost or suppressed for this very "reason". What is lost or suppressed may be recalled by someone up to the challenge, someone at par with Aristotle's talent and good fortune, nevertheless.

What we look at now are these sorts of questions that seem to forget entirely about, and so do not treat of, the phenomenon of the will.

Answer 2

Because although our cells are constantly dying and being replaced by new ones, the process is a gradual one which allows our memory to be transferred from cell to cell before they die, thus keeping the memory alive.

Answer 3

Because the substance of your nature is constituted by a metaphysical sub-strata that is immaterial, but nevertheless real.

Answer 4

Moronic question. You can't buy knowledge in medicine by pretending it's philosophy.

Timaeus: Hahahahahaha

Answer 5

look at this piece of string i am holding in my hands. i tie a simple knot in it.

i slide the knot along the string. as the knot moves along the string there is a length of wool blended into the end of the string. i move the knot along. at first the knot was made of string, now it is made of wool.

i tease the knot a little further. now i slide the knot from my length of wool onto a length of silk.

the knot was made of string, then it was made of wool, now it is made of silk. but it is still the same knot.

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i don't actually have a piece of string. the knot was made of words all along. but it is still the same knot.

Answer 6

Because our soul is our consciousness, not our body!
We are triune beings - body, soul, and spirit.