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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:

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[–] ieGod@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The truth is there are already many things in the room. Walls, air, paper. Gravitational influence. The arrangement is rife with mass. Between the Planck lengths are quantum fluctuations. A crease introduces a new arrangement of some of this, and the energy required to do so increases entropy. In other words, this philosophy exercise seems completely useless other than putting ignorance on full display.

[–] tomalley8342@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago

Nah, it's supposed to get you to think about what a thing is. You've listed random other examples of things but haven't really gotten closer to differentiating what makes a thing vs it not being a thing.

[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Thats what philosophy does. It's a crowbar we shove into the cracks in our models of how the world works to prove for weakness.

In the example above all you did was describe the paper better. It doesn't matter if it's blue or creased or whatever, the question is about the physicality (or lack thereof) of information. We're still not sure what happens to the information that passes through a black hole. Philosophy is a blind person's cane, helping to feel out unfamiliar territory.

[–] Mountainaire@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

As in, that territory can never be fully known?