I dont know, my English isnt the best yet anyway

You should believe in your spirit

depends on how your approach your *spirits*

The spirit of a thing is the essence of it

not a single philosophy of the world seem to have an issue with being both an intelligent and individual spiritual being, and those who find the *spirit* to be merely an outcome of physically cooperating body parts cant disagree either

The spirit of a hammer if you believe in it is the understated purpose. Anything hammer like would be a hammer

For a car is that too

that's logically flawed

For a man the spirit is the spirit of man

you're discussing ideas

and ideas may vary, at least in theory, indifinetely amongst themselves

A car is a car in its totality is not the engine nor the wheels but the totality

It has a purpose

there are infinite amount of ideas and calling somebody an avatar of idea of "human" is something poorly precised

I cant define what a flower exactly is.
I can define the purpose of specific parts that make up a flower

Anything that does what a car does could be considered a car

it is a recursive scheme of defining a global variable

not really

Yes you can define a flower

But there is also an spirit of the flower

There is a paradox about it.

in dont believe in spirits, I could only relate to *ideas*

in a plato's sort of way

It’s only a paradox from a logical perspective.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus

```that raises the question of whether a ship—standing for an object in general—that has had all of its components replaced remains fundamentally the same object. ```

Spirit is the essence of the thing

"ship—standing for an object"
"that has had all of its components replaced remains fundamentally the same object. "
it doesnt remain the same

and thinking otherwise is a flawed concept

Spirit wise it does

idea-wise it does

it represents a physical form of an idea

of a ship that is defined as:
"...."
that performs actions such as:
"..."

it is an object of a class

like in programming or mathematics

you could define ideas as some sort of more or less narrow classes for objects

and a physical object would define a class that isnt physically existing

the thing about is that classes may be infinite, as many you can think of

Yes you could say that but no need to do programming

```This theory states that two ships, while identical in all other ways, are not identical if they exist at two different times. Each ship-at-time is a unique "event". So even without replacement of parts, the ships in the harbour are different at each time```
also nothing really new, I had the same idea reading just a sci-fi novel 6 years ago

The classes were set by the creator himself