The age-old classic paradox:
"When did you stop (beating your wife)?"
Answering yes or no is not a good idea.
But this paradox is bypassable.
You can answer with "I have never beat my wife", and it is bypassed.
Thursday, June 16, 2016
Wednesday, June 15, 2016
Daily Wondering #29-Hobby, Habit, and Job
As a blogger, I find doing this a mix of these three words.
Hobby, Habit, and Job.
I tell other people I do this as a hobby.
To me it seems like it is a habit.
And I feel like you guys think this is a job.
What separates these?
Hobby, Habit, and Job.
I tell other people I do this as a hobby.
To me it seems like it is a habit.
And I feel like you guys think this is a job.
What separates these?
Tuesday, June 14, 2016
Daily Wondering #28-To and Back and In Between
What is a journey?
It could apply to so many different things, but where does it apply to for you?
There are a lot of journeys, as in stories, and personal lives, etc...
Personally, a journey is whatever you make it. It doesn't have to be long or short, all things are just interpretation.
So if you interpret something as something, that becomes whatever you interpreted it as.
This doesn't always work, as our brains are somewhat locked to one interpretation.
It could apply to so many different things, but where does it apply to for you?
There are a lot of journeys, as in stories, and personal lives, etc...
Personally, a journey is whatever you make it. It doesn't have to be long or short, all things are just interpretation.
So if you interpret something as something, that becomes whatever you interpreted it as.
This doesn't always work, as our brains are somewhat locked to one interpretation.
Monday, June 13, 2016
Daily Wondering #27-Thresholds
What are the thresholds for things that don't have a definite threshold?
For example, when is a mix of two colors one of the other colors?
Are there even thresholds for such things?
For example, when is a mix of two colors one of the other colors?
Are there even thresholds for such things?
Sunday, June 12, 2016
Daily Wondering #26-Acceptance
My deepest condolences to anyone who has been affected in the Orlando terrorist attack, by the way.
Attacks like these only happen because humans cannot learn to accept.
We are all humans, it doesn't matter who you are.
Why accepting all people as people is so difficult is astounding to me...
Why do you think we can't learn to accept?
Attacks like these only happen because humans cannot learn to accept.
We are all humans, it doesn't matter who you are.
Why accepting all people as people is so difficult is astounding to me...
Why do you think we can't learn to accept?
Saturday, June 11, 2016
Daily Wondering #25-Limit of Evolution
All beings evolve, with the purpose of improving.
But is there a limit to this?
Is there a time when we have evolved so much we can no longer evolve any more?
What do you think?
I say the limit is so far in the future it appears to be endless... for now.
But is there a limit to this?
Is there a time when we have evolved so much we can no longer evolve any more?
What do you think?
I say the limit is so far in the future it appears to be endless... for now.
Friday, June 10, 2016
Daily Wondering #24-The Deeper Root of Sentience
What is sentience?
Sentience seems to be required in order to feel and think.
But why does it exist?
Why must we be sentient?
There seems to be no meaning in anything.
Nothing really exists.
So is sentience all that important?
Sentience seems to be required in order to feel and think.
But why does it exist?
Why must we be sentient?
There seems to be no meaning in anything.
Nothing really exists.
So is sentience all that important?
Thursday, June 9, 2016
Daily Wondering #23-What is Emotion?
What is emotion?
It is something humans have.
Probably it comes with sentience.
But what is it?
It is something humans have.
Probably it comes with sentience.
But what is it?
Wednesday, June 8, 2016
Daily Wondering #22-Patterns?
What are patterns?
And what really defines that something is a pattern?
For one example, does it only take two similar results to form a pattern?
Or does it take more?
Patterns are different for each object...
And what really defines that something is a pattern?
For one example, does it only take two similar results to form a pattern?
Or does it take more?
Patterns are different for each object...
Tuesday, June 7, 2016
Random Stories #3-Oddity
There is a deeper meaning to this story!
A cube awakened in an odd world. It was a very peculiar and unique world. Everything was either black or white. There was no other colors.
As the cube looked around, (somehow, as the cube was just a cube with no other features) he noticed the world was just odd shapes.
It was an odd world indeed...
The cube then proceeded to move around a bit.
He saw some moving blocks and other sentient cubes.
Nothing really interested him.
He moved forward a bit, and fell into a hole.
He tried to jump out, but he couldn't jump high enough.
The cube was frustrated...
Another cube passing by, and ripped some nearby blocks off of a blocky stack.
This other cube proceeded to create a small rope, then offered it to the cube in the hole.
In this way, the other cube got the cube in the hole out of the hole, and the two then became friends, it cubes could do that.
The two met many more challenges, such as spike pits, chasms, and tall walls. But every time they managed to surpass whatever obstacle was thrown at them.
But then, they came to a chasm so great they were unable to cross it with any method.
So one of the cubes melted its own body apart to form a bridge. Although the other cube made it past, using its companion as a bridge, the cube was saddened.
And so the cube stood beside the bridge... and never left...
The cube remains beside the very bridge today...
A cube awakened in an odd world. It was a very peculiar and unique world. Everything was either black or white. There was no other colors.
As the cube looked around, (somehow, as the cube was just a cube with no other features) he noticed the world was just odd shapes.
It was an odd world indeed...
The cube then proceeded to move around a bit.
He saw some moving blocks and other sentient cubes.
Nothing really interested him.
He moved forward a bit, and fell into a hole.
He tried to jump out, but he couldn't jump high enough.
The cube was frustrated...
Another cube passing by, and ripped some nearby blocks off of a blocky stack.
This other cube proceeded to create a small rope, then offered it to the cube in the hole.
In this way, the other cube got the cube in the hole out of the hole, and the two then became friends, it cubes could do that.
The two met many more challenges, such as spike pits, chasms, and tall walls. But every time they managed to surpass whatever obstacle was thrown at them.
But then, they came to a chasm so great they were unable to cross it with any method.
So one of the cubes melted its own body apart to form a bridge. Although the other cube made it past, using its companion as a bridge, the cube was saddened.
And so the cube stood beside the bridge... and never left...
The cube remains beside the very bridge today...
Monday, June 6, 2016
Daily Wondering #21-Exclusion
Humans are good at excluding and at finding the odd one out in a group.
This leads to problems like racism.
But exclusion isn't always bad, like the case of quarantine.
So when is it good or bad?
This leads to problems like racism.
But exclusion isn't always bad, like the case of quarantine.
So when is it good or bad?
Sunday, June 5, 2016
Paradoxes and Dilemmas #4-Numerical Sense
What are numbers?
This is one of the greatest paradoxes of all time.
Numbers are concepts that humans have defined in order to adapt to the world better... they are merely tools...
But how can we be sure they work universally?
Humans define them to work universally, and it would appear everything is countable... but what if there was something that could not be counted?
Would it just be a void?
But even then, there would still be the number 0...
Something that could not be counted is still out of human grasp...
Saturday, June 4, 2016
Daily Wondering #20-Norms
Norms are what humans are probably the best at setting.
We are terrible at setting goals, horrible at setting plans that will work, etc.
But norms, that is another completely different story.
When we set norms, what is not within the norm is immediately excluded.
We humans seem to be very good at excluding (look at all the racism, etc.)
Defining what is normal...
But do humans have the ability to do so?
Humans can define something and say it is true, but that does not necessarily make it true.
As a matter of fact, nothing is 100% true.
So why should norms be?
Humans ought to try and live life... without the norms.
We are terrible at setting goals, horrible at setting plans that will work, etc.
But norms, that is another completely different story.
When we set norms, what is not within the norm is immediately excluded.
We humans seem to be very good at excluding (look at all the racism, etc.)
Defining what is normal...
But do humans have the ability to do so?
Humans can define something and say it is true, but that does not necessarily make it true.
As a matter of fact, nothing is 100% true.
So why should norms be?
Humans ought to try and live life... without the norms.
Friday, June 3, 2016
Daily Wondering #19-Fear in General
Fear is a major emotion in the human brain.
we have each felt it at one point or another.
What really causes fear?
Humans are all afraid of different things, but why?
What is there to be feared at all?
Death is just a sudden end, just as all things mjst end.
There os nothing to be feared from the unknown, or death, orvirtually anything else.
we have each felt it at one point or another.
What really causes fear?
Humans are all afraid of different things, but why?
What is there to be feared at all?
Death is just a sudden end, just as all things mjst end.
There os nothing to be feared from the unknown, or death, orvirtually anything else.
Thursday, June 2, 2016
Daily Wondering #18-Fear of the Unknown
What is the one thing that is feared by nearly all?
Death, loss, and spiders seem to be common.
But there really is one thing nearly everyone fears.
It is the unknown.
It is within death, loss, and many other things like this.
Humans have a great need, for some reason, to know things.
And what we do not know, we have no experience going into.
After death, we do not know what comes; thus we fear it.
When we lose something, we do not know where it is; thus we are afraid to lose.
A fear of spiders seems more irregular/irrational, but if you think about the fact that you don't know a good many things about the spider (for one, what it is thinking), the fear of the unknown strikes again.
And the worst part-we have no word for a fear of the unknown...
Xenophobia is the closest thing I can find, and it applies to a fear of foreigners more than a fear of the unknown...
We must learn to overcome a fear of the unknown.
Wednesday, June 1, 2016
Daily Wondering #17-Philosophy's Importance
People often disregard philosophy as a useless branch of thinking that involves circular reasoning with no correct answers.
But I like to think differently.
Philosophy was the basis for science.
And philosophy defines how we should live everyday life.
Everyone has decisions to make, and therefore everyone has philosophies to guide them through this.
Philosophy is therefore just as important as other studies.
But I like to think differently.
Philosophy was the basis for science.
And philosophy defines how we should live everyday life.
Everyone has decisions to make, and therefore everyone has philosophies to guide them through this.
Philosophy is therefore just as important as other studies.
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