Heh. I wasn’t even aware of any such theories existing.
You don’t really need defense here, my point was decidedly obscure, as I realized when I tried to answer your question. I got about two paragraphs into a response before I foundered in the inferential gulf.
I suspect that any way of talking about “the original” as distinct from its “descendent” is going to lose comprehensibility as it runs into the human predisposition to treat identity as preserved over time.
Heh. I wasn’t even aware of any such theories existing.
You don’t really need defense here, my point was decidedly obscure, as I realized when I tried to answer your question. I got about two paragraphs into a response before I foundered in the inferential gulf.
I suspect that any way of talking about “the original” as distinct from its “descendent” is going to lose comprehensibility as it runs into the human predisposition to treat identity as preserved over time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speculation\_about\_Mona\_Lisa#Other\_versions (which is more than just speculation about the original)