Top 10 Mind Blowing Philosophical Ideas to Think About
1Linguistically, 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
2The Sorites Paradox
3No 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
4The idea of moral luck and how it affects the 'goodness' of people
5The theory of Six Degrees of Separation
6What 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
7The notion of solipsism
8It's possible that everything came into existence today, and we came into existence with fake memories
9If you are just a highly complex collection of physical matter, how does a first person point of awareness come into being?
10Our 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.
11You can have a doppelganger millions, or even billions, of light years away
12The thought that if you leave hydrogen for long enough, it will start to wonder why it is there
13The problem of induction
14We're both Heaven and Hell
15What you see as blue could actually be green to me
16Slugs are just snails without homes
17Rule-based systems are inherently chaotic due to the principle of Exquisite Sensitivity to Initial Conditions