I didn’t make a claim that constant replacement occurs “empirically.” As far as I can tell, it’s not possible to empirically test whether it does or not. I think we are left deciding whether we choose to think of ourselves as being constantly replaced, or not—either choice won’t contradict any empirical observations. My post was pointing out that if one does choose to think of things that way, a lot of other paradoxes seem to go away.
I didn’t make a claim that constant replacement occurs “empirically.” As far as I can tell, it’s not possible to empirically test whether it does or not. I think we are left deciding whether we choose to think of ourselves as being constantly replaced, or not—either choice won’t contradict any empirical observations. My post was pointing out that if one does choose to think of things that way, a lot of other paradoxes seem to go away.