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You can melt down a lathe and it is quite hard to reassemble it, and even if you did reform the entire thing people would doubt if it is the same lathe.

Humans have had parts removed and reattached. With transplants components have been replaced entirely. There is a point at which you can destruct a machine from which it is impossible to reconstruct without getting into ship of Theseus issues. That point is different for different things.



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