I thought not. It’s not a story Hayward would tell you. It’s a thought experiment. The “Ship of Theseus” was the ship of Theseus, so powerful and so wise it could use its 30 oars to influence the water to make way… It had such a buoyancy that it could even keep the ones it cared about from dying. The art of sailing and floating is a pathway to many destinations some consider to be unnatural. It became so powerful… the only thing the ship was afraid of was decaying and being replaced, which eventually, of course, it did. Unfortunately, its planks of wood rotted over time, and then they were replaced with new planks. Ironic. The ship could keep others from death, but not itself.