Is it still the same pokemon after being in a pokeball?

[Warmmedown]

The Pokemon is deconstructed and turned into a representation of the pokemon, that is just a bunch of computer code or some kind of energy. Is it still the same pokemon afterwards? Or did it build a new one? If I have a table and it gets obliterated into wood fibres but then put back together into a table that is exactly the same dimensions and composition, is it the same table? I don't think so.

And is the Pokemon energy in the ball specific to the Pokemon? Or does the ball kill thr Pokemon and then create a description of the Pokemon and then the ball just contains generic Pokemon energy and then uses the saved description to create instructions on how to make the same Pokemon again? The ball us programmed so it can only be turned on again if it absorbs a Pokemon again, but really the Pokemon is never in the ball and if the ball was hacked it could produce unlimited clones of the last Pokemon it absorbed, as long as it has an energy source.

 

[SAB]

The Pokemon is deconstructed and turned into a representation of the pokemon, that is just a bunch of computer code or some kind of energy. Is it still the same pokemon afterwards? Or did it build a new one? If I have a table and it gets obliterated into wood fibres but then put back together into a table that is exactly the same dimensions and composition, is it the same table? I don't think so.

And is the Pokemon energy in the ball specific to the Pokemon? Or does the ball kill thr Pokemon and then create a description of the Pokemon and then the ball just contains generic Pokemon energy and then uses the saved description to create instructions on how to make the same Pokemon again? The ball us programmed so it can only be turned on again if it absorbs a Pokemon again, but really the Pokemon is never in the ball and if the ball was hacked it could produce unlimited clones of the last Pokemon it absorbed, as long as it has an energy source.

I believe you are asking the age old question if you take a piece of wood from a ship and replace it. The take the old wood and make a new ship. Which one is the original ship?

However, I'd like to say does changing the very thing that makes a Pokémon a Pokémon matter?

 

[Warmmedown]

However, I'd like to say does changing the very thing that makes a Pokémon a Pokémon matter?

What's the very thing?

Yeh it was inspired by the Ship of Theseus.