Then, I'm thinking could we possibly also have a brain and health in proportion to that length of time? — Caldwell
I'm sure this is a common one. It's blown my mind when I try to get my arms around it since I was a teenager. Still does. Imagine nothing. Really nothing. No one to know it's nothing. No space, not quantum vacuum. Nothing. Not anything anywhere. No things. No where. — T Clark
Zeno's paradoxes.. I'm curious to see what Thought Experiments you guys find intriguing. — theUnexaminedMind
Isn't this the thought that comes to mind when someone tries to think about how it was before birth for each of us? — Manuel
No space — T Clark
Well “space” means “there is nothing there”. So I’d think what you want to imagine is just a world with all objects taken out of it, plenty of space, but not much else. I don’t see much difficulty in that. — khaled
But I don’t get the point of the second thought experiment at all. Ok, I’m isolated in a classroom and I must have drank way too much because I start saying things about describing the whole world using nothing but the contents of the room. — khaled
Before one studies Zen, mountains are mountains and waters are waters; after a first glimpse into the truth of Zen, mountains are no longer mountains and waters are no longer waters; after enlightenment, mountains are once again mountains and waters once again waters. — Dogen (Zen Master)
I think that the answer of 'never have I head anything more divine' would be the ultimate expression of life affirmation. — CountVictorClimacusIII
Before one studies Zen, mountains are mountains and waters are waters; after a first glimpse into the truth of Zen, mountains are no longer mountains and waters are no longer waters; after enlightenment, mountains are once again mountains and waters once again waters. — Dogen (Zen Master)
I thought, if you had a teacher that told this to you, then knowing that the end result appears the same as it is to you know, why bother taking the journey? — theUnexaminedMind
Simple. Classical. Still intriguing. — ssu
One of my favorite thought experiments is the boy with no words. Suppose if a boy was raised his whole life without any sort of made up language of communication. How would he think? I think he would think in terms of images and feelings. The essence of what we think. — Thinking
But you have to pretend calculus isn't a thing to fully appreciate them. — Kenosha Kid
I might be wrong, but I think Math is so beautiful, that to a such essential part of mathematics, there perhaps is a simple intuitive and beautiful reasoning — ssu
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