#philosophical puzzles

[amarguerite]

One nice thing about increased self-knowledge is that in any thought experiment I know my truthful response to like “what track would you take in the trolley experiment” would be “I would have a debilitating panic attack as soon as the options were presented to me and I was informed I was responsible”

[the-anime-man]

Puyo puyo puzzle pop gets a C- specifically because english sig still uses cobalt

[communistmishka]

Goated twice on today's puzzles

[virtualcamelselfies]

The Talos Principle replay 🤖🐈

[curiousscallop]

i need my aroace people across the sea to wake up and remind me through my giggling that i am not insane

[matias-2003]

The logic puzzle in The Philosopher's Stone book

Contents:

1 bottle moves you forwards

1 bottle moves you backwards

2 bottles have wine

3 bottles have poison

Clues:

Both bottles of wine have a bottle of poison at the left

Bottles 1 and 7 DON'T have the same content and 1 of them is the one that moves you backwards

Bottles 3 and 6 DON'T have poison

Bottles 2 and 6 have the same content

Solution:

Bottles of wine have bottles of poison at the left so bottle 1 isn't wine

Bottle 6 doesn't have poison so bottle 2 doesn't either. Wine is the only liquid besides poison that is in at least 2 bottles so bottles 2 and 6 are wine

Since bottles 2 and 6 are wine it means bottles 1 and 5 are poison

Since bottle 1 is poison it means bottle 7 is the one that moves you backwards

The potion that moves you forwards is the only available option for bottle 3 so bottle 3 is the one that moves you forwards

Poison is the only available option for bottle 4 so bottle 4 is poison

[officialralsei]

hey ralsei, are you acquainted with the works of german philospher Arthur Schopenhauer and his exploration of philosophical pessimism?

No...? I don't know very much about philosophy, haha.

[antiphrastic]

Writing this Vashwood and their uncountable number of accidental seedling babies fic was so much easier when everything I knew about Trigun came from the handful of fics I'd read and one screenshot of a Plant.

But now I Know Things [tm] and it's all gotten so much more complicated.

[zony66]

we are bees for machines

[alteredsilicone]

ok real talk i would love a game that handles it's lore "realistically" and by that i mean:

-you have to go out of your way to look for it and different bits of lore that come together may come from unlikely places (something you find early on nets an answer via a seemingly unrelated thing later on)

-there might be contradicting accounts: history doesn't lie, historians, however...

-there are different opinions about the same thing and it's up to you to decide who you agree with (and maybe the answer is - no one!), gaining knowledge in certain ways might change your perspective on something you learned earlier on

-some things are just never fully explained, because they are lost to time either accidentally or deliberately

[alexanderwales]

Here's a legal PSA:

If you've committed a crime and a detective gathers everyone involved in the room, especially if he's not actually a detective and is instead a novelist, puzzle-setter, psychic, fake psychic, dog, chess grandmaster, etc. ...

YOU SHOULD NOT CONFESS.

Every year, hundreds of people are put away by non-traditional "detectives" who have either inserted themselves into the case or are working with the police in a dubiously legal capacity as advisor. In 99% of these cases, the murderer gives a full confession even though the evidence against them is circumstantial at best and often requires a long just-so story which can only guess at motive.

If this happens to you, stay quiet, do not attempt to defend yourself or talk your way out of it, only say "I want a lawyer".

Now if you find yourself being investigated by a boy genius, magician's assistant, anthropologist, classics scholar, or philosopher, it's likely that refusing to talk to the police (or investigator with no legal authority) is merely the end of the second act, and by the end of the third act they will have you dead to rights.

YOU SHOULD STILL NOT CONFESS.

Make them take it to court. Force the eccentric detective and his straight-laced police partner to take the stand and explain their methods to a jury of your peers. Have your lawyer look at the chain of custody on the evidence, especially if you believe it to have been handled by someone who has only bumbled into detective work through their natural charm and/or unique set of skills and outsider perspective that come in handy more often than they should.

Know your rights. Don't let eccentric detectives put you away.

[makeitdewey]

169 Analogy

The fun thing about the knights and knaves puzzle is that no matter what goofy variant you come up with, not only has it already been considered, some maniac has worked out the optimal solution. What if there's a third guard who lies or tells the truth at random? It's been done. What if the guards will only answer yes/no questions, and also for some reason they understand your language but refuse to speak it, and you don't know which of the two words they may respond with means "yes" and which means "no"? Literal thesis papers have been written on that one. Logicians are absolute freaks for these guys.

[the-anime-man]

The puyo puzzlepop update came out last night and i unfortunately still dont have access to apple arcade so i have to wait on what's going on with the story and oh boy am i way too impatient for this shit

[girlcockholmes]

your tags on the door poll are interesting because i think of it the opposite way. in my mind a door is a hole in a wall to allow people thru so when it's open it's on. hm!

i appreciate your viewpoint you should be warned though that i have died on hills like this very violently before. refer back to the great ‘how many holes does a straw have?’ incident of 2018 in which my friend group was all shouting at each other fighting to the death over one or two with me being trampled beneath trying to argue that it is infinite

[pratchettquotes]

One of the recurring philosophical questions is:

"Does a falling tree in the forest make a sound when there is no one to hear?"

Which says something about the nature of philosophers, because there is always someone in a forest. It may only be a badger, wondering what that cracking noise was, or a squirrel a bit puzzled by all the scenery going upwards, but someone. At the very least, if it was deep enough in the forest, millions of small gods would have heard it.

Things just happen, one after another. They don't care who knows. But history...ah, history is different. History has to be observed. Otherwise it's not history. It's just...well, things happening one after another.

Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

[grungepoetica]

talos principle go brrrrrr. brain rewiring go brrrrrrr