Top 10 Mind Blowing Philosophical Ideas to Think About
Top 10 Mind Blowing Philosophical Ideas to Think About: 18 items ranked by popular vote. Browse more in Philosophy.
Linguistically, it's possible for two people to have a conversation that each
Linguistically, it's possible for two people to have a conversation that each believes to be meaningful, but actually has no meaning because one or both of them don't know what they're talking about
The Sorites Paradox
No matter what you do you will be plagued by regret
For example, if you marry, you will regret it, but if you don't, you will regret that too
The idea of moral luck and how it affects the 'goodness' of people
The theory of Six Degrees of Separation
What I may be seeing as green may be seen by someone else as red, it's just
What I may be seeing as green may be seen by someone else as red, it's just that we both have been taught since childhood to call that particular colour as green
The notion of solipsism
It's possible that everything came into existence today, and we came into
It's possible that everything came into existence today, and we came into existence with fake memories
If you are just a highly complex collection of physical matter, how does a
If you are just a highly complex collection of physical matter, how does a first person point of awareness come into being?
Our entire being is self-oriented; that even the most humane and magnanimous
Our entire being is self-oriented; that even the most humane and magnanimous acts are done to satisfy our own needs regarding self-worth, avoidance of guilt and related emotional discomfort; at the very least, avoidance of self-loathing.
You can have a doppelganger millions, or even billions, of light years away
The thought that if you leave hydrogen for long enough, it will start to wonder why it is there
The problem of induction
We're both Heaven and Hell
What you see as blue could actually be green to me
Slugs are just snails without homes
Rule-based systems are inherently chaotic due to the principle of Exquisite
Rule-based systems are inherently chaotic due to the principle of Exquisite Sensitivity to Initial Conditions
You are the universe
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