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Aaking the important questions

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Every time I see this meme, I get progressively closer to understanding what they want to solve

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Philosophy > science

Fight me

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Science is philosophy. Somewhere along the way people seem to have forgotten that

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Here’s a fun game:

Pick any Wikipedia article. Click the first link. Keep clicking the first link. Eventually you’ll end up at Philosophy and forever be in a loop going back to Philosophy.

Turns out conscious thinking and applying logical rigor is the basis for everything we perceive.

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I’m trying this out.

Here’s the results: Shadow King (Marvel character): success after about 10 links

Ernest Shackleton (article of the day): 10 clicks

Wikipedia (the article): 4 clicks

Church of the Holy Mother of God, Bolshiye Saly: 14 clicks

James Loren Martin: 24 clicks

Annette Ziegler: 14 clicks

Almost all of them went through Philosophy of Science or Philosophy of Art. Seems like a pretty reliable rule.

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I found an exception:

Starting from https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/English: Help:IPA/English > Alphabet > Letter (alphabet) > Symbol > Sign (semiotics) > Semiotics > Help:IPA/English

If you don’t think the IPA link counts as “the first link”, then

Starting from https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_language: Japanese language > Japonic languages > Japanese language

will also cause a loop.

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Started off at the page for Ham, and yep, it ended up on philosophy.

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Apparently, there is a wikipedia article about this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Getting_to_Philosophy

I really wish this article wouldn’t link to philosophy, but it does…

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There seem to be a couple of loops where you always end up circling between the same through pages

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If this is true, then every wikipedia page will eventually lead to wikipedia of Greek, because the philosophy page leads to greek.

Hence, Greek best country confirmed by wikipedia?!

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You know what I mean, brother. There’s a huge scope of difference between applied sciences and natural philosophy. Our technological advancements fail to resolve fundamental questions about the human condition. Scientists rarely study epistemology or philosophy in order to attain our degrees and I think it shows in the public trend toward scientism.

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Scientism is so pervasive and so ridiculous. For example there’s people who say magic isn’t real because science can explain it. No shit science can explain it, that’s the point of science. It’s people defining science in opposition to magic based on cultural values instead of actually knowing what science is. https://medium.com/@viridiangrail/tautological-denial-of-magic-0e311ca94c2a

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