Dude, Where’s My Ship of Theseus?

One of my favorite sci-fi authors Edward Ashton takes a break from doing cancer research, teaching quantum physics, and writing novels to drop by the podcast and solve the Ship of Theseus thought experiment once and for all. We get in depth about his novel "Mickey 7," soon to be a major motion picture directed by Bong Joon-ho and starring Robert Pattinson and Mark Ruffalo. We also talk about his upcoming book "Antimatter Blues," whether extraterrestrial arboreal cephalopods would like us, and could unfettered capitalism possibly have some negative consequences for society?