Consider the quote:
"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results."
-Albert Einstein
Of course, that's not the definition of insanity, and Einstein didn't say it (despite the quote often being attributed to him). For those reasons, it sounds pretty stupid. But I would argue there is something wise about the quote and that it's worth paying attention to.
If we are in a situation that's deterministic and static - that is, nothing...
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determinism
Philosophical questions that arise when we compare reality to our subjective experience of it
A surprisingly large number of unsettled questions in philosophy arise from the difficulty of meshing:
A. our theoretical understanding of what things are "really" like (physics, atoms, etc.)
with
B. our direct, first-hand experiences as humans.
Examples:
(1) Ethics - most people experience a visceral feeling that some things are inherently and universally morally wrong (e.g., murdering children). Yet it's unclear what, in the universe of atoms (or in physics), could make (o...
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