Follow Existential Comics, filter it, and define how you want to receive the news (via Email, RSS, Telegram, Whatsapp etc.) http://existentialcomics.com Sun, 17 Jan 2021 00:40:29 GMT FeedCreatorClass 1.0 dev (follow.it) https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/KXziYKIva_4FxUkfcPQaElhQxPUTldIijJ6U5nDCGxbPGPIZ9v7OyL1feC13RwsAvhKGw8IgofzkBJrD12eQvQ <img src="https://api.follow.it/rssubscribers/rss_show_story_count/390730181/1767808" border=0 width="1" height="1" alt="Story 390730181" title="Story 390730181"> <img src="https://static.existentialcomics.com/comics/PhilosophicalDiscussionGroup.png" alt="Jeremy Bentham: &#34;Welcome to our philosophical discussion group. First question: Is it morally acceptable to steal bread to feed your starving family? &#34; Karl Marx: &#34;Of course it is! And he should also do a communist revolution to abolish the system which forces some to starve!&#34; Philippa Foot: &#34;What about this: a trolley is headed down a track to kill five people but you can divert it to kill one, what do you do?&#34; Karl Marx: &#34;I would simply do a communist revolution to abolish the system were we must choose who dies for the trolley company&#39;s profit.&#34; Judith Jarvis Thomson: &#34;What if a master violinist-&#34; Karl Marx, interrupting: &#34;I&#39;d do a communist revolution to prevent whatever second half of that sentence was going to be!&#34; Judith Jarvis Thomas: &#34;Marx, we&#39;ve been over this. You can&#39;t just say “communist revolution” to everything, or we are going to have to ask you to leave.&#34; Karl Marx, flipping over the table: &#34;REVOLUTION!&#34; Judith Jarvis Thomas: &#34;But nothing changed, the table is just upside down now.&#34; Karl Marx: &#34;The People&#39;s table is upside down.&#34; " title="&#34;Trotsky, barging in to flip the table over again: \&#34;permanent revolution!\&#34;&#34; "> Mon, 11 Jan 2021 07:00:00 GMT https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/KXziYKIva_4FxUkfcPQaElhQxPUTldIijJ6U5nDCGxbPGPIZ9v7OyL1feC13RwsAvhKGw8IgofzkBJrD12eQvQ https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/KXziYKIva_6Mlki6uCiPToK4lqbilo2_jJ6U5nDCGxbPGPIZ9v7OyL1feC13RwsAvhKGw8IgofxrBpPNXzvmzQ <img src="https://api.follow.it/rssubscribers/rss_show_story_count/388816491/1767808" border=0 width="1" height="1" alt="Story 388816491" title="Story 388816491"> <img src="https://static.existentialcomics.com/comics/DesertIslandPhilosophy.png" alt="Description: four philosophers are on a desert island. Thomas Hobbes: Well, we really have a problem. We&#39;ve crashed on this island and i don&#39;t see much food around.&#34; Kierkegaard: &#34;Yes, we do have a problem...&#34; Kierkegaard: &#34;...what is the meaning of life?&#34; Descartes: &#34;What? That&#39;s not our problem Kierkegaard, our problem is that we need to establish one certain fact on which to build our framework of knowledge, otherwise how do we even know we are on a desert island at all?&#34; Wittgenstein: &#34;That&#39;s not our problem, Descartes.&#34; Wittgenstein: &#34;Our problem is that “we have no food”, is a negative fact, which we can&#39;t empirically verified--, because we can&#39;t do that without observing that there are no further facts to observe, which is impossible.&#34; Descartes: &#34;No, Wittgenstein, once we ground our-&#34; Hobbes, shouting: &#34;Everyone shut up! Do you idiots not understand how dire the situation is? If we don&#39;t form a society we will all be in a war of all against all, and certainly starve.&#34; Descartes: &#34;Ahh, I see, Hobbes. So you are saying our problem is how do we form a new society based on rational principles?&#34; Hobbes: &#34;Exactly. I suggest we form a constitutional monarchy.&#34; Descartes: &#34;But who will be the Monarch?&#34; Hobbes, waving a large stick at the others: &#34;Isn&#39;t it obvious? The one with the stick is the Monarch. Now get to work looking for food!&#34; " title="&#34;But how do you justify your idea that we all need to follow the man with the stick?&#34; &#34;I&#39;ll give you a one guess...&#34; "> Mon, 04 Jan 2021 07:00:00 GMT https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/KXziYKIva_6Mlki6uCiPToK4lqbilo2_jJ6U5nDCGxbPGPIZ9v7OyL1feC13RwsAvhKGw8IgofxrBpPNXzvmzQ https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/KXziYKIva_7NP59k9jNLvqIvsWU3YeF4jJ6U5nDCGxbPGPIZ9v7OyL1feC13RwsAvhKGw8IgofwfsVh982ahAA <img src="https://api.follow.it/rssubscribers/rss_show_story_count/386990286/1767808" border=0 width="1" height="1" alt="Story 386990286" title="Story 386990286"> <img src="https://static.existentialcomics.com/comics/VerificationistMan.png" alt="Caption: &#34;In a world rife with metaphysical speculation, only one man has the intellect, courage, and commitment to verifiable science to do stop it... &#34; Caption: &#34;...also, he was the only one who was a big enough nerd to care so much about stuff like that.&#34; Caption: &#34;He was, Principle of Verification Man!&#34; Description: It is Rudolph Carnap in a cape. Carnap: &#34;Hooray for science!&#34; Leibniz: &#34;Mind and body coincide not due to causation, but because of a pre-established harmony ordained by God.&#34; Carnap, slapping him: &#34;That statement has no empirical content that can be verified by the sense, so it is...nonsense!&#34; Kant: &#34;Reality is in itself unknowable, we can only observe the phenomenal world.&#34; Carnap, slapping him: &#34;Nonsense!&#34; Whitehead: &#34;Reality consists of processes rather than material objects.&#34; Schlick: &#34;Only statements that are empirically verifiable are cognitively meaningful.&#34; Carnap, slapping him: &#34;Nonsense!&#34; Schlick: &#34;Carnap, what are you doing? That&#39;s our theory!&#34; Carnap: &#34;Wait...shit, no, hold on...&#34; " title="Wait a minute, I don&#39;t care that at all, because the verification principle isn&#39;t making a metaphysical claim it is making a suggestion about how we should talk about things. "> Mon, 28 Dec 2020 07:00:00 GMT https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/KXziYKIva_7NP59k9jNLvqIvsWU3YeF4jJ6U5nDCGxbPGPIZ9v7OyL1feC13RwsAvhKGw8IgofwfsVh982ahAA https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/KXziYKIva_7SpxPrTqJbEr5RcLLQpvP9jJ6U5nDCGxbPGPIZ9v7OyL1feC13RwsAvhKGw8IgofwYUgr99TcpAg <img src="https://api.follow.it/rssubscribers/rss_show_story_count/385250665/1767808" border=0 width="1" height="1" alt="Story 385250665" title="Story 385250665"> <img src="https://static.existentialcomics.com/comics/SocraticLove.png" alt="PERSON: &#34;I&#39;m so nervous for my date. &#34; PERSON: &#34;Don&#39;t worry, Socrates. Just relax and ask a lot of questions to show you are interested.&#34; PERSON: &#34;A lot of questions... i can do that.&#34; PERSON: &#34;So, are you enjoying your meal?&#34; PERSON: &#34;Yes, it&#39;s pretty good.&#34; PERSON: &#34;Ah, so you seem to know what a good meal is...&#34; PERSON: &#34;Sure, it tastes good.&#34; PERSON: &#34;But wouldn&#39;t you agree that some meals taste good to some and bad to others?&#34; PERSON: &#34;Uh...yeah i suppose.&#34; PERSON: &#34;Look, i&#39;m just trying to enjoy my meal, okay?&#34; PERSON: &#34;So the fact that it tastes good to you can&#39;t be what makes it good...&#34; PERSON: &#34;Ahhh, so if you are trying to enjoy it, then you must know what “enjoyment” is...&#34; PERSON: &#34;So i&#39;m sure you could explain to me, what is the true essence of enjoyment?&#34; PERSON: &#34;I made him drink hemlock.&#34; PERSON: &#34;So then what happened?&#34; PERSON: &#34;Nice.&#34; " title="Socrates love is when you love asking questions more than you love not drinking hemlock. "> Mon, 21 Dec 2020 07:00:00 GMT https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/KXziYKIva_7SpxPrTqJbEr5RcLLQpvP9jJ6U5nDCGxbPGPIZ9v7OyL1feC13RwsAvhKGw8IgofwYUgr99TcpAg https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/KXziYKIva_7GX4smSKki1BJj_vXnlxhXjJ6U5nDCGxbPGPIZ9v7OyL1feC13RwsAvhKGw8IgofwXiBf3xDPbZw <img src="https://api.follow.it/rssubscribers/rss_show_story_count/383265654/1767808" border=0 width="1" height="1" alt="Story 383265654" title="Story 383265654"> <img src="https://static.existentialcomics.com/comics/AllMenAreMortal1.png" alt="PERSON: &#34;Who would dare to drink it?&#34; PERSON: &#34;Really? If it works, how come you never drank it? ::::(-6 56)My lord, I have this elixer that i obtained in Egypt which grants immortality and eternal youth. &#34; PERSON: &#34;Someone who isn&#39;t a total wimp, that&#39;s who! Give me that. &#34; PERSON: &#34;Oh...wait a minute, i just realized what you meant. You mean because if i cannot die, then eventually all life on earth will be extinguished and i&#39;ll be left wandering a barren rock alone for all eternity.&#34; PERSON: &#34;Yes, exactly. Eternal life is horrifying beyond imagination.&#34; PERSON: &#34;Shit...i should have probably thought about that for more than two seconds. &#34; PERSON: &#34;No worries, I&#39;ll just my use my power to unite the earth into a perfect world governed by rational principles. I will create a utopia on Earth!&#34; PERSON: &#34;Well, good luck with that i guess. I will be dead.&#34; " title="None"> <br /><hr /><br /> <img src="https://static.existentialcomics.com/comics/AllMenAreMortal2.png" alt="PERSON: &#34;100 years later...&#34; PERSON: &#34;Hey, stop burning people at the stake! No! Stop that! We should respect other beliefs. &#34; PERSON: &#34;200 years later...&#34; PERSON: &#34;Hey, no! Stop killing the natives! We have to all get along! They were here first, after all.&#34; PERSON: &#34;300 years later...&#34; PERSON: &#34;Hey, you! Cut it out! Killing witches isn&#39;t a rational basis for society to operate.&#34; PERSON: &#34;600 years later...&#34; PERSON: &#34;No, hey! Quit trying to invade Poland! Why is everyone always trying to invade Poland? Just make sausages and get along with each other.&#34; PERSON: &#34;Well, that didn&#39;t work at all, i guess i&#39;ll just stare into space for eternity.&#34; PERSON: &#34;Hmm, i got a new idea, maybe sleeping with french actresses is the meaning of life? it&#39;s worth a shot at least.&#34; " title="As an aside, of all the philosophy quotes I&#39;ve heard, I always thought Simone de Beauvoir&#39;s &#34;all men must die: but for every man his death is an accident and, even if he knows it and consents to it, an unjustifiable violation&#34; would be the most badass one to say just before you shoot someone. "> Mon, 14 Dec 2020 07:00:00 GMT https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/KXziYKIva_7GX4smSKki1BJj_vXnlxhXjJ6U5nDCGxbPGPIZ9v7OyL1feC13RwsAvhKGw8IgofwXiBf3xDPbZw https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/KXziYKIva_5NrhCnizdKxxgmnB14iVhGjJ6U5nDCGxbPGPIZ9v7OyL1feC13RwsAvhKGw8IgofxsOVK_s-QcMA <img src="https://api.follow.it/rssubscribers/rss_show_story_count/381160843/1767808" border=0 width="1" height="1" alt="Story 381160843" title="Story 381160843"> <img src="https://static.existentialcomics.com/comics/KierkegaardsDespair.png" alt="PERSON: &#34;Despair. &#34; PERSON: &#34;Despair!&#34; PERSON: &#34;Despaaaaaaaair!&#34; PERSON: &#34;Kierkegaard, whatever is wrong?&#34; PERSON: &#34;It&#39;s just that...&#34; PERSON: &#34;the self is a relation which relates itself to its own self, or it is that in the relation that the relation relates itself to its own self; the self is not the relation but that the relation relates itself to its own self!&#34; PERSON: &#34;But what does that mean?!&#34; PERSON: &#34;What? You don&#39;t know either? But that would mean no one knows...&#34; PERSON: &#34;Despair!&#34; PERSON: &#34;Despair!&#34; " title="Why do I despair? I do not despair as much as I should. "> Mon, 07 Dec 2020 07:00:00 GMT https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/KXziYKIva_5NrhCnizdKxxgmnB14iVhGjJ6U5nDCGxbPGPIZ9v7OyL1feC13RwsAvhKGw8IgofxsOVK_s-QcMA https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/KXziYKIva_6R6vXjHoBpB1TpqAfie_VUjJ6U5nDCGxbPGPIZ9v7OyL1feC13RwsAvhKGw8IgofwrmbpJieJq-A <img src="https://api.follow.it/rssubscribers/rss_show_story_count/379145006/1767808" border=0 width="1" height="1" alt="Story 379145006" title="Story 379145006"> <img src="https://static.existentialcomics.com/comics/HerbertSpencerVisitsPittsburg1.png" alt="Herbert Spencer: &#34;Much like the evolution of species, free market capitalism gives an evolution of society. &#34; Spencer: &#34;The stronger, more efficient companies survive while the poorly managed ones die off.&#34; Spencer: &#34;The wealthy deserve their position, it is right and natural that superior people who advance society should be at the top.&#34; Spencer: &#34;Likewise, poor laws, in which the government helps the poor with charity, are unnatural. They interfere with the progress of purifying society through the survival of the fittest.&#34; Messenger: &#34;Herbert Spencer, Andrew Carnegie is a great admirer of you and wants to invite you to Pittsburgh to see the advanced industrial production of capitalism in America.&#34; Spencer: &#34;Excellent! A chance to see my ideas in action!&#34; Andrew Carnegie: &#34;Welcome to Pittsburgh&#34; Spencer: &#34;Thank you, i can&#39;t wait to see how you&#39;ve improved efficiency so much.&#34; Carnegie: &#34;Great! Let me show you to the factory.&#34; Spencer: &#34;Is the air always this foul? Why doesn&#39;t anyone try to prevent the factories from spewing toxic fumes in the air?&#34; Carnegie: &#34;Ahh, well you see, that&#39;s what we call an “externality”.&#34;" title="None"> <br /><hr /><br /> <img src="https://static.existentialcomics.com/comics/HerbertSpencerVisitsPittsburg2.png" alt="Carnegie: &#34;You see, we don&#39;t have to pay for polluting the air, so if i spent extra money to prevent spewing toxins into the air constantly, and my competitors didn&#39;t, i would go out of business. &#34; Spencer: &#34;Of course...&#34; Carnegie: &#34;Here is the factory, in all its glory.&#34; Spencer: &#34;Good god, these men look practically dead.&#34; Carnegie: &#34;Well yes, they work 12 hours a day, 7 days a week in the scorching heat.&#34; Spencer: &#34;I think this one might be dead.&#34; Carnegie: &#34;No, he is just... napping, I&#39;m sure.&#34; Spencer: &#34;Right...&#34; Carnegie: &#34;Although you must agree, if i valued safety over profits and my competitors didn&#39;t, well... survival of the fittest, right?&#34; Spencer: &#34;Why don&#39;t they just unionize so they can bargain for safety measures and days off?&#34; Carnegie: &#34;Well, as you know I respect unions and would never prevent that.&#34; Carnegie, whispering: &#34;...at least that&#39;s what I tell the press, if my workers try to unionize I just shoot them.&#34; Carnegie: &#34;So as you see, it&#39;s a scientific fact that someone like me should rise to the top. There is nothing unnatural or evil about it.&#34; Carnegie: &#34;So what do you think of the great industrial Pittsburgh?&#34; Spencer: &#34;Six months residence here would justify suicide.&#34; " title="&#34;Does Capitalism encourage the worst men to have power? No, Americans are just bad.&#34; "> Mon, 30 Nov 2020 07:00:00 GMT https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/KXziYKIva_6R6vXjHoBpB1TpqAfie_VUjJ6U5nDCGxbPGPIZ9v7OyL1feC13RwsAvhKGw8IgofwrmbpJieJq-A https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/KXziYKIva_7ZRgc2vImpJhSYCfjz2BFcjJ6U5nDCGxbPGPIZ9v7OyL1feC13RwsAvhKGw8Igofzvm23ooF_aAg <img src="https://api.follow.it/rssubscribers/rss_show_story_count/377179993/1767808" border=0 width="1" height="1" alt="Story 377179993" title="Story 377179993"> <img src="https://static.existentialcomics.com/comics/CaptainMetaphysicsandthePhilosophyZombie1.png" alt="Plato: &#34;Leibniz, come quickly, something is terribly wrong with Kant!&#34; Leibniz: &#34;What is it?&#34; Plato: &#34;You have to see for yourself.&#34; Description: Two identical Immanual Kants are sitting at desks writing philosophy. Plato: &#34;There are two of them!&#34; Leibniz: &#34;Two Kants! Good god, one was bad enough. But where did the second one come from?&#34; David Chalmers: &#34;It is I who has done it, evil David Chalmers! I have made a duplicate of Kant, he is identical in behavior in every way, but there is one crucial difference...&#34; Chalmers: &#34;He has no consciousness! He is a philosophical zombie! Since you can&#39;t tell the difference in behavior, I have shown physicalism to be false once and for all, HaHaHaHaHaHaHa!&#34; Plato: &#34;There must be a way to tell them apart. Kant one, what do you want from life? Happiness? Love? Fulfillment? &#34; Kant one: &#34;No, I want to work on philosophical problems.&#34; Leibniz: &#34;Okay, Kant two: A tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over, but it can&#39;t. Not without your help. But you&#39;re not helping. Why is that?&#34; Kant two: &#34;Because i would rather work on philosophy, obviously.&#34;" title="None"> <br /><hr /><br /> <img src="https://static.existentialcomics.com/comics/CaptainMetaphysicsandthePhilosophyZombie2.png" alt="Leibniz: &#34;The problem is Kant is already pretty devoid of consciousness. We need Captain Metaphysics.&#34; All together: &#34;With our powers combined! Captain Metaphysics: &#34;I know how to tell them apart!&#34; Description: Captain Metaphysics punching Kant one, then punches Kant two. Kant two: &#34;Owww! What the hell are you doing, that hurts!&#34; Captain Metaphysics: &#34;The real Kant is that one, because he doesn&#39;t like feeling pain.&#34; Leibniz, as they all start beating up Kant two: &#34;Wow, you are right, this is a great way to determine who has consciousness!&#34;" title="&#34;Yes, but what if the philosophy zombie can&#39;t feel any pain, and is only pretending to be a wimpy nerd?&#34; "> Mon, 23 Nov 2020 07:00:00 GMT https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/KXziYKIva_7ZRgc2vImpJhSYCfjz2BFcjJ6U5nDCGxbPGPIZ9v7OyL1feC13RwsAvhKGw8Igofzvm23ooF_aAg https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/KXziYKIva_61olDdgKWqbh0ER_wuOeIGjJ6U5nDCGxbPGPIZ9v7OyL1feC13RwsAvhKGw8IgofzShKRYIpis8Q <img src="https://api.follow.it/rssubscribers/rss_show_story_count/375040434/1767808" border=0 width="1" height="1" alt="Story 375040434" title="Story 375040434"> <img src="https://static.existentialcomics.com/comics/DiaryofaSeducer.png" alt="Kierkegaard: &#34;To understand the Aesthetic life, we must understand a man who seduces a woman merely to be interesting.&#34; Friend at a cafe: &#34;How does he do that, Kierkegaard?&#34; Kierkegaard: &#34;He schemes and seduces her, to make her believe she loves him.&#34; Kierkegaard: &#34;Then, just as they are the verge of marriage, he cunningly convinces her against the idea so that she breaks off the engagement herself.&#34; Kierkegaard: &#34;Why does he do this? Not for the act of seduction itself, but of the possibility of it.&#34; Kierkegaard: &#34;For the poetry of it. The irony. To create an interesting moment out of the boredom and tedium of everyday life.&#34; Friend: &#34;So that&#39;s what you did with Regine Olsen? Seduced her and left her merely to make life interesting?&#34; Kierkegaard: &#34;Alas, yes, i am not proud of it ethically, but i used her in a game to create a beautiful, interesting moment of poetry.&#34; Friend: &#34;I heard you broke it off because you are so depressed that you cry yourself to sleep every night, knew you&#39;d make a terrible husband..&#34; Kierkegaard: &#34;Sure i mean...that too. I&#39;d say it was about fifty fifty...&#34; " title="&#34;Have you ever actually seduced anyone?&#34; &#34;I once seduced my own despair, does that count?&#34; &#34;No.&#34; "> Mon, 16 Nov 2020 07:00:00 GMT https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/KXziYKIva_61olDdgKWqbh0ER_wuOeIGjJ6U5nDCGxbPGPIZ9v7OyL1feC13RwsAvhKGw8IgofzShKRYIpis8Q https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/KXziYKIva_6czHiQ7InO75lpwu7s-aXBjJ6U5nDCGxbPGPIZ9v7OyL1feC13RwsAvhKGw8IgofwtxRTv8chduQ <img src="https://api.follow.it/rssubscribers/rss_show_story_count/372967718/1767808" border=0 width="1" height="1" alt="Story 372967718" title="Story 372967718"> <img src="https://static.existentialcomics.com/comics/HusserlDefendsHisDissertation1.png" alt="Husserl, waking up hungover: &#34;Crap, only an hour to go. What is a brilliant philosophy i can do at the last minute?&#34; Husserl: &#34;Shit shit, I forgot to write my dissertation! &#34; Husserl: &#34;Clocks? Time? Maybe how time goes too fast?&#34; Husserl: &#34;No...inkwells? Are inkwells are a philosophy? I hate how i have to keep dipping my pen in. I hate how they look.&#34; Husserl: &#34;Wait, is that it...maybe looking at things can be a philosophy? Well, i don&#39;t have anything better, so...&#34; Husserl, in front of the dissertation committee: &#34;Uh...so as you see, my revolutionary philosophy is merely concerned with how the inkwell appears to our minds.&#34; Interviewer: &#34;And how does it appear?&#34; Husserl: &#34;It appears...&#34; Husserl: &#34;...like an inkwell.&#34; " title="None"> <br /><hr /><br /> <img src="https://static.existentialcomics.com/comics/HusserlDefendsHisDissertation2.png" alt="Interviewer 1: &#34;Wow...it totally does. I never noticed that.&#34; Interviewer 2: &#34;Pretty good.&#34; Interviewer: &#34;But how do you deal with the metaphysics of how things are in themselves?&#34; Husserl: &#34;Ahh, well here&#39;s the clever bit. I&#39;m bracketing those questions.&#34; Interviewer: &#34;What do you mean? &#34; Husserl: &#34;I&#39;m ignoring them, since they don&#39;t matter to my project. It&#39;s only about looking at stuff.&#34; Interviewer: &#34;What about epistemology? How do we know any of this?&#34; Husserl: &#34;Yeah I&#39;m going to go ahead and have to bracket that too.&#34; Interviewer 1: &#34;What about morality?&#34; Interviewer 2: &#34;Or Aesthetics?&#34; Interviewer 3: &#34;Or the meaning of life?&#34; Husserl: &#34;Bracketed, Bracketed, bracketed.&#34; Interviewer: &#34;Wow, okay, that is...&#34; Interviewer, shaking his hand: &#34;...by far the greatest philosophy of all time. Congratulations!&#34;" title="&#34;Just one more question.&#34; &#34;Sorry I&#39;ve bracketted further questions.&#34; &#34;Damn...he&#39;s good.&#34; "> Mon, 09 Nov 2020 07:00:00 GMT https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/KXziYKIva_6czHiQ7InO75lpwu7s-aXBjJ6U5nDCGxbPGPIZ9v7OyL1feC13RwsAvhKGw8IgofwtxRTv8chduQ https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/KXziYKIva_5YNMcgoTRm23yVViYOrYq1jJ6U5nDCGxbPGPIZ9v7OyL1feC13RwsAvhKGw8IgofzhqxF3Vxv-ug <img src="https://api.follow.it/rssubscribers/rss_show_story_count/370852885/1767808" border=0 width="1" height="1" alt="Story 370852885" title="Story 370852885"> <img src="https://static.existentialcomics.com/comics/MarxistBrainstorming1.png" alt="Marx: &#34;Alright guys, what is the one thing that the communist movement is really missing, that is preventing it from taking off? &#34; Engels: &#34;Class consciousness among the proletariat? &#34; James Guillaume: &#34;A large scale organized political party?&#34; Bakunin: &#34;A trained militia capable of revolution?&#34; Engels: &#34;Unity between different leftist groups? &#34; Marx: &#34;What? No, I&#39;m talking about a snappy slogan, obviously.&#34; Marx: &#34;So let&#39;s have a brainstorming session and think up a slogan good enough to bring about communism.&#34; Bakunin: &#34;Okay, what about...&#34; Bakunin: &#34;Workers of the worlds...just say NO to capitalism.&#34; Marx: &#34;Alright Bakunin, well, it&#39;s a brainstorming session, so there are no bad ideas...i guess. Anyone else have a slogan?&#34; Guillaume: &#34;What about this: workers of the world...stop having your surplus labor value taken away from you on account of the fact that it only takes some hours to produce...&#34; Marx: &#34;Good, Engels, just not quite...zippy enough.&#34; " title="None"> <br /><hr /><br /> <img src="https://static.existentialcomics.com/comics/MarxistBrainstorming2.png" alt="Guillaume: &#34;What about: workers of the world, if you see a capitalist, punch him in the throat!&#34; Bakunin: &#34;Why is it always throat punches with you, Guillaume?&#34; Guillaume: &#34;The throat is the capitalist&#39;s weak point. It both swallows the bread created from the toil of the workers, and commands the labor of the proletariat! One good punch to the throat could bring down the whole rotten system!&#34; Marx: &#34;Alright, well obviously the throat punching one is the best so far, but i feel like we still aren&#39;t there.&#34; Marx: &#34;Wait a minute, I&#39;ve got it!&#34; Marx: &#34;Workers of the world...UNITE!&#34; Bakunin: &#34;Oh I see how it is, so we all have to unite. No room for individuals under Marx&#39;s communism.&#34; Marx: &#34;No, i just mean-&#34; Bakunin: &#34;I know what you mean, well i have my own slogan: no Gods, no masters! And that includes the communist party!&#34; Bakunin: &#34;Come on Guillaume, let&#39;s form our own party, with our own slogan.&#34; Guillaume: &#34;Yeah! No Gods, no masters, lots of throat punching!&#34; Marx: &#34;God damnit. Why does this always happen?&#34; " title="In the end the anarchists decided that any one overriding slogan was an unjustified hierarchical form of domination and it was up to each individual to freely pick their own slogan."> Mon, 02 Nov 2020 07:00:00 GMT https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/KXziYKIva_5YNMcgoTRm23yVViYOrYq1jJ6U5nDCGxbPGPIZ9v7OyL1feC13RwsAvhKGw8IgofzhqxF3Vxv-ug https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/KXziYKIva_58hJ7sO5Yki5lpwu7s-aXBjJ6U5nDCGxbPGPIZ9v7OyL1feC13RwsAvhKGw8IgofxwqwB1pWqNAQ <img src="https://api.follow.it/rssubscribers/rss_show_story_count/368729718/1767808" border=0 width="1" height="1" alt="Story 368729718" title="Story 368729718"> <img src="https://static.existentialcomics.com/comics/PhilosophyNewsNetworkisPhilosophyUseless1.png" alt="Simone de Beauvoir, as a newscaster: &#34;This week a special report on philosophy: is it totally pointless, or what?&#34; News ticker: &#34;Communist party splits over controversial “no splitting” rule.&#34; de Beauvoir: &#34;Joining us are two experts in the field, Bertrand Russell and Ludwig Wittgenstein.&#34; Description of Bertrand Russell: expert in philosophy, math, and failing to ground things in logic. Description of Ludwig Wittgenstein: basically a younger, cooler, better looking version of Russell. de Beauvoir: &#34;We&#39;ll start with you, Russell, you believe that philosophy has value?&#34; News Ticker: &#34;philosophy professor forced to imagine himself fired over offensive thought experiment.&#34; Bertrand Russell: &#34;Certainly de Beauvoir. There are so called “practical men” who only believe philosophy is the pursuit of hair-splitting distinctions and irrelevant musings.&#34; News Ticker: Foucault writes 600 page genealogical account of his feud with next door neighbor over parking. Russell: &#34;And while philosophy doesn&#39;t build up a body of knowledge, like mathematics or science, because it is certain, but The value of philosophy is, in fact, to be sought largely in its very uncertainty. In its ability is able to suggest many possibilities which enlarge our thoughts and free them from the tyranny of custom.&#34; News Ticker: Machiavelli says The Prince wasn&#39;t meant literally, it was written in a cynical attempt to gain power. Russell: &#34;the man who has no tincture of philosophy goes through life imprisoned in the prejudices derived from common sense and from convictions which have grown up in his mind without the co-operation of consent of his deliberate reason.&#34; News Ticker: Philosophy community in shock after freshmen student solves all problems on the first try. " title="None"> <br /><hr /><br /> <img src="https://static.existentialcomics.com/comics/PhilosophyNewsNetworkisPhilosophyUseless2.png" alt="de Beauvoir: &#34;Well said Russell. Wittgenstein, your response?&#34; News Ticker: Schopenhauer&#39;s lawsuit against Hegel dismissed after judge rules Hegel was the greater philosopher. Ludwig Wittgenstein: &#34;That is wrong. Philosophy is stupid and pointless, and we shouldn&#39;t do it anymore.&#34; News Ticker: Kierkegaard confesses his big regret in life: that he didn&#39;t date enough smoking hot babes. Russell: &#34;How can you say that? Don&#39;t you realize that your statement itself is philosophical? That you are doing philosophy yourself?&#34; News Ticker: Epistemology Department closes after failing to secure knowledge of whether they had funding. Wittgenstein: &#34;Well, yes, obviously my philosophy is useful. Someone has to point how useless your philosophy is, after all. But after i finished doing that everything else is a huge waste of time.&#34; News Ticker: philosophers all agree to give up on the hard problem of consciousness, “it&#39;s too hard.” de Beauvoir: &#34;Thank you, Wittgenstein, i think we can all agree this, at the very least, has been a huge waste of time.&#34; News Ticker: Sigmund Freud changes his mind after realizing he is the only one that obsessed with penises. de Beauvoir: &#34;Coming up next week: women? doing philosophy? It&#39;s more likely than you think. But can they do as well as men? We have a panel of six men to discuss.&#34; News Ticker: Saint Augustine confesses: “i once stole pears from a man in Reno, just to watch him cry.”" title="Is philosophy useless? Well, it is now on account of the fact that I&#39;ve solved it. "> Mon, 26 Oct 2020 07:00:00 GMT https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/KXziYKIva_58hJ7sO5Yki5lpwu7s-aXBjJ6U5nDCGxbPGPIZ9v7OyL1feC13RwsAvhKGw8IgofxwqwB1pWqNAQ https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/KXziYKIva_4QGQqtqnLHeN5ZNjP4VUNEjJ6U5nDCGxbPGPIZ9v7OyL1feC13RwsAvhKGw8Igofz_TO3yhlrdKA <img src="https://api.follow.it/rssubscribers/rss_show_story_count/366530023/1767808" border=0 width="1" height="1" alt="Story 366530023" title="Story 366530023"> <img src="https://static.existentialcomics.com/comics/RationalSelfInterest.png" alt="Ayn Rand, speaking to factory workers (as their boss): &#34;Good news everyone! The engineers have created a machine that makes it so we can produce the same amount with only half the work! &#34; Worker: &#34;Wow, that&#39;s great Ayn Rand, so we only have to work half as many hours? &#34; Ayn Rand: &#34;What? No, you still have to work just as hard.&#34; Worker: &#34;So we get twice the salary? &#34; Ayn Rand: &#34;Are you kidding? Of course not.&#34; Worker: &#34;So what do we get?&#34; Ayn Rand: &#34;Nothing, obviously. Do you own the machines they made? No. Oh by the way, i almost forgot to mention, I&#39;m rolling back everyone&#39;s pensions. &#34; Ayn Rand: &#34;You see, according to my philosophy everyone should follow their rational self interest. Which means all for me and none for anyone else. Now get back to work you lousy moochers!&#34; Description: Some time has passed. The workers are building a guillotine. Ayn Rand: &#34;What&#39;s with the Guillotine?&#34; Workers: &#34;Well, we decided to follow your advice and act in our rational self interest...&#34; " title="The biggest mistake the Bolsheviks made was sending Ayn Rand to University and letting her read Nietzsche. "> Mon, 19 Oct 2020 07:00:00 GMT https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/KXziYKIva_4QGQqtqnLHeN5ZNjP4VUNEjJ6U5nDCGxbPGPIZ9v7OyL1feC13RwsAvhKGw8Igofz_TO3yhlrdKA https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/KXziYKIva_4SflqzeeUUa22L2Wvp7nzWjJ6U5nDCGxbPGPIZ9v7OyL1feC13RwsAvhKGw8Igofx9XdFQfM_u3A <img src="https://api.follow.it/rssubscribers/rss_show_story_count/364420624/1767808" border=0 width="1" height="1" alt="Story 364420624" title="Story 364420624"> <img src="https://static.existentialcomics.com/comics/DiotimaTeachesSocratesLove.png" alt="PERSON: &#34;Wise Diotima, i have a question about the nature of love, and i&#39;ve heard that you are learned in its ways. &#34; PERSON: &#34;he who wishes to know the nature of love should love first one fair form, and then many, and learn the connection of them; and from beautiful bodies he should proceed to beautiful minds. ::::(-10 359)Certainly, Socrates, i will now initiate you into the greater mysteries of love.&#34; PERSON: &#34;And then to the beauty of laws and institutions, until he perceives that all beauty is of one kindred; and from institutions he should go on to the sciences.&#34; PERSON: &#34;And in the contemplation of that supreme being of love he will behold beauty, not with the bodily eye, but with the eye of the mind&#34; PERSON: &#34; Until at last the vision is revealed to him of a single science of universal beauty, and then he will behold the everlasting nature which is the cause of all, and will be near the end.&#34; PERSON: &#34;This will bring forth true creations of virtue and wisdom, and be the friend of God and heir of immortality. &#34; PERSON: &#34;Okay, uh, that&#39;s cool i guess, but actually my question was: “can loverboys still be attractive if they&#39;ve grown beards?”&#34; " title="Oracle of Delphi: &#34;also, no one is Athens is hornier than Socrates.&#34; "> Mon, 12 Oct 2020 07:00:00 GMT https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/KXziYKIva_4SflqzeeUUa22L2Wvp7nzWjJ6U5nDCGxbPGPIZ9v7OyL1feC13RwsAvhKGw8Igofx9XdFQfM_u3A https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/KXziYKIva_7JIr2gOdN2ubi__GgJ4975jJ6U5nDCGxbPGPIZ9v7OyL1feC13RwsAvhKGw8IgofwDucjsL1Xv9g <img src="https://api.follow.it/rssubscribers/rss_show_story_count/362234272/1767808" border=0 width="1" height="1" alt="Story 362234272" title="Story 362234272"> <img src="https://static.existentialcomics.com/comics/TheInventionofPhilosophy1.png" alt="Description: Thales and his wife are sleeping in bed, he suddenly sits up and shouts: &#34;My God, I&#39;ve got it! What if we try thinking about stuff! &#34; Thale&#39;s Wife: &#34;Go to bed Thales, it&#39;s two in the morning.&#34; Thales: &#34;Is it though? Maybe time is an illusion, did you ever think of that? Huh?!&#34; Thales Wife: &#34;Whatever, just go to sleep.&#34; Description: The next day Thales in drinking with his friends. Thales: &#34;Alright guys, we are going to try something different today. I call it: philosophy.&#34; Heraclitus: &#34;What is that?&#34; Thales: &#34;It&#39;s where we think about stuff...and try to figure out the truth about the world.&#34; Heraclitus: &#34;Sounds weird. Can&#39;t we just drink and talk about who we want to have sex with, like usual?&#34; Thales: &#34;No! We are going to try to find the truth. So...any ideas about the ultimate nature of reality?&#34; Pythagoras: &#34;I don&#39;t get it. What are we supposed to do?&#34; Thales: &#34;Like what about this, what if everything was actually composed of water?&#34; Pythagoras: &#34;What, like...everything?&#34; Thales: &#34;Yes, everything! Because water can take other forms.&#34; Pythagoras: &#34;Yeah but...even music?&#34; Thales: &#34;Look, I just invented philosophy this morning, so lay off, okay? There are no bad ideas.&#34;" title="None"> <br /><hr /><br /> <img src="https://static.existentialcomics.com/comics/TheInventionofPhilosophy2.png" alt="Heraclitus: &#34;Ohh, I think I&#39;m starting to get it. Like, what if everything was really composed of...fire. &#34; Thales: &#34;Good, Heraclitus, and why is that?&#34; Heraclitus: &#34;Because fire... can take other forms.&#34; Democritus: &#34;I get it, what if everything was composed of very small things?&#34; Heraclitus: &#34;Is it because very small things can be arranged in other forms, Democritus?&#34; Democritus: &#34;Exactly. Man, philosophy is easy.&#34; Thales: &#34;Alright guys, you can&#39;t just say “everything is composed of...” and then name the first thing that comes to mind. There is more to philosophy than that.&#34; Pythagoras: &#34;What if everything is composed of...numbers!&#34; Democritus: &#34;Whoa, trippy!&#34; Heraclitus: &#34;Good one Pythagoras.&#34; Thales, angrily: &#34;Alright, that&#39;s it, you&#39;ve ruined it. No more philosophy. Philosophy is stupid and i regret inventing it. &#34; " title="&#34;What if everything is composed of regret?&#34; "> Mon, 05 Oct 2020 07:00:00 GMT https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/KXziYKIva_7JIr2gOdN2ubi__GgJ4975jJ6U5nDCGxbPGPIZ9v7OyL1feC13RwsAvhKGw8IgofwDucjsL1Xv9g https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/KXziYKIva_4FDlDHKDD_qovuQzT8FyZ4jJ6U5nDCGxbPGPIZ9v7OyL1feC13RwsAvhKGw8Igofy5soV-s6PElg <img src="https://api.follow.it/rssubscribers/rss_show_story_count/360153516/1767808" border=0 width="1" height="1" alt="Story 360153516" title="Story 360153516"> <img src="https://static.existentialcomics.com/comics/TheEthicsofAmbiguity1.png" alt="Simone de Beauvoir: &#34;So, as you know, Sartre, there are five types of people: losers, nihilists, adventurers, serious men, and existentialists.&#34; Jean-Paul Sartre: &#34;Of course, de Beauvoir everyone knows that.&#34; de Beauvoir: &#34;Well here&#39;s what I realized, they all suck except for the existentialists.&#34; Sartre: &#34;Well, yes, I thought that was obvious.&#34; de Beauvoir: &#34;But here&#39;s the thing, they don&#39;t just suck, they morally suck!&#34; Sartre: &#34;Whoa, hold on, I thought it was impossible to reconcile morality with existentialism, because existentialism allows for the freedom to do anything, right?&#34; de Beauvoir: &#34;Wrong. Let&#39;s break down why the other five types of people are morally wrong first.&#34; de Beauvoir: &#34;Losers are obviously wrong. They are just sub men who are incapable of asserting themselves. They flee from their freedom either in resentment or passive submission. This cannot be a morally authentic way of engaging in the world.&#34; Image of loser: &#34;I hate everything but I&#39;m not going to do anything about it.&#34; de Beauvoir: &#34;Next are nihilists. Obviously wrong. They believe their lives are meaningless so proceed to live meaningless lives. They are basically just losers who like being losers. Plus, if they are really nihilists they should really just kill themselves all the time.&#34; Imagine of Nihilist: &#34;Nothing matters, man. We are just floating on a space rock.&#34; de Beauvoir: &#34;Now the serious men of society who believe wholeheartedly in society&#39;s rules. At least they believe in something, but society is a pretty dumb thing to believe in. Be it religion, a company, or just the social rules. They cant make moral choices because they cant make real choices at all.&#34; Image of serious man: &#34;What&#39;s important in life is to build highways.&#34; " title="None"> <br /><hr /><br /> <img src="https://static.existentialcomics.com/comics/TheEthicsofAmbiguity2.png" alt="de Beauvoir: &#34;Adventures. Badasses. Now they are better than losers, nihilists and serious men, obviously, because at least they are cool. But are they moral? No. No one cool is moral because when push comes to shove, they will always choose being cool over real authentic moral engagements. &#34; Image of adventurer: &#34;Why climb the mountain? Because it is there.&#34; de Beauvoir: &#34;Now we get to the existentialists, since we&#39;ve eliminated everyone else, they are the only ones that can be authentically free, on account of the fact that they&#39;ve read our books.&#34; Image of existentialist: &#34;Wow, Simone de Beauvoir is right, I should live authentically.&#34; Sartre: &#34;Of course. But how does that make them moral?&#34; de Beauvoir: &#34;Because we are the only ones to recognize that no system can deal with the concrete reality of life. &#34; de Beauvoir: &#34;It turns out that all moral decisions are always ambiguous, and nothing can guide us in our answers.&#34; Sartre: &#34;Right, so if your answer to morality is that nothing can guide us, that&#39;s almost like having...no morality at all.&#34; de Beauvoir: &#34;Well, there are still some rules that can guide us, despite our absolute freedom.&#34; Sartre: &#34;Like what?&#34; de Beauvoir: &#34;Like don&#39;t be a god damn loser, obviously. Pay attention!&#34;" title="Oh also I forgot one more rule: overthrow the bourgeoisie and create worldwide communism. "> Mon, 28 Sep 2020 07:00:00 GMT https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/KXziYKIva_4FDlDHKDD_qovuQzT8FyZ4jJ6U5nDCGxbPGPIZ9v7OyL1feC13RwsAvhKGw8Igofy5soV-s6PElg https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/KXziYKIva_6N_1kPP81w_LMRSreaq4CqjJ6U5nDCGxbPGPIZ9v7OyL1feC13RwsAvhKGw8IgofyxuyMv-LtMfQ <img src="https://api.follow.it/rssubscribers/rss_show_story_count/357934308/1767808" border=0 width="1" height="1" alt="Story 357934308" title="Story 357934308"> <img src="//static.existentialcomics.com/comics/EternalRecurrance.png" alt="PERSON: \"I love Nietzsche, he's the greatest. \" PERSON: \"Yeah me too, I consider myself to be an ubermensch, like Napoleon. Or Batman.\" PERSON: \"Although being an ubermensch makes it hard to relate to people.\" PERSON: \"Yeah, me too. Although actually i think you'll find the Joker to be the true ubermensch.\" PERSON: \"Yeah, everyone is so stupid. Especially women.\" PERSON: \"True. He ignores all the rules.\" PERSON: \"True, the problem i have with modern feminism is that it's based on resentment and... what is that sound?\" PERSON: \"I am cursed to return eternally and deliver this message to my followers!\" PERSON: \"What is the message?\" PERSON: \"Yes?\" PERSON: \"The message is...\" " title="As John Searle once said: \"Nietzsche is like drinking cognac - a sip was good, but you didn't want to drink the whole bottle.\" "> Mon, 21 Sep 2020 07:00:00 GMT https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/KXziYKIva_6N_1kPP81w_LMRSreaq4CqjJ6U5nDCGxbPGPIZ9v7OyL1feC13RwsAvhKGw8IgofyxuyMv-LtMfQ https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/KXziYKIva_7Do9eRpa8UT-oJh1oRFGAxjJ6U5nDCGxbPGPIZ9v7OyL1feC13RwsAvhKGw8Igofxp4aZnmHHplA <img src="https://api.follow.it/rssubscribers/rss_show_story_count/355748095/1767808" border=0 width="1" height="1" alt="Story 355748095" title="Story 355748095"> <img src="//static.existentialcomics.com/comics/TheWiseManontheMountain.png" alt="Description: a man is climbing a mountain, he reaches a wise man at the top. Man: \"Wise philosopher on the mountain, you have been contemplating the meaning of life for ten years, please enlighten me! \" Wise man: \"The meaning of life is...\" Wise man: \"...to contemplate the meaning of life!\" Description: the man looks at him suspiciously. Wise man: \"what?\" Man: \"Doesn't it seem a bit convenient for a philosopher to say the meaning of life is doing philosophy?\" Wise man: \"Whatever, I'd like to see you come up with something better! It's harder than it sounds.\" " title="\"True wisdom is knowing that you don't know anything.\" \"If you don't know anything, then why the hell did I climb this thing?\" \"Good point. Perhaps true wisdom is knowing not to climb mountains and ask wise men the meaning of life.\" "> Mon, 14 Sep 2020 07:00:00 GMT https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/KXziYKIva_7Do9eRpa8UT-oJh1oRFGAxjJ6U5nDCGxbPGPIZ9v7OyL1feC13RwsAvhKGw8Igofxp4aZnmHHplA https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/KXziYKIva_7rNqO7QGFSmG8zKwyaox3JjJ6U5nDCGxbPGPIZ9v7OyL1feC13RwsAvhKGw8IgofxUaVlZxHDZEg <img src="https://api.follow.it/rssubscribers/rss_show_story_count/353574741/1767808" border=0 width="1" height="1" alt="Story 353574741" title="Story 353574741"> <img src="//static.existentialcomics.com/comics/ThreeLittlePhilosophersofScience.png" alt="\"Once upon a time there were three little philosophers of science. The first philosopher, Rudolph Carnap, built his theory on the principle of verificationism.\" \"But then along came the big bad wolf, who blew his philosophy down because it couldn't adequately demarcate between science and non-science.\" \"The second philosopher, Karl Popper, built his theory on the principle of falsification.\" \"Then along came the big bad wolf, who blew his philosophy down because no actual scientific theory ever has an exact set of falsifiable criteria.\" \"The third philosopher, Thomas Kuhn, built his theory on a rigorous sociological account of working scientists.\" \"Then along came the big bad wolf, and he blew that theory down too, because it descended into relativism. It turns out that philosophy of science is hard.\" Thomas Kuhn, shouting: \"God damnit, you are all misinterpreting me! \" " title="Kuhn: \"is my theory crumbling because I am forced to make an increasing number of ad hoc adjusts, exactly how I described scientific theories crumble before a paradigm shift? No, it's the kids who are wrong.\" "> Mon, 07 Sep 2020 07:00:00 GMT https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/KXziYKIva_7rNqO7QGFSmG8zKwyaox3JjJ6U5nDCGxbPGPIZ9v7OyL1feC13RwsAvhKGw8IgofxUaVlZxHDZEg https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/KXziYKIva_4jKK24ixTy8UzZuB_TiqRyjJ6U5nDCGxbPGPIZ9v7OyL1feC13RwsAvhKGw8IgofzHxqNC652TTg <img src="https://api.follow.it/rssubscribers/rss_show_story_count/351398445/1767808" border=0 width="1" height="1" alt="Story 351398445" title="Story 351398445"> <img src="//static.existentialcomics.com/comics/TuringTestsandOtherThingsofThatNature1.png" alt="Description: a series of tests conducted by a scientist and philosopher. Text 1 on computer: \"what is your earliest childhood memory?\" Reply on computer: \"wow i looked thru your pictures and ur eyes are gorgeous baby u want some fuk?\" Woman: \"Yeah, that's definitely a dude... \" Scientist: \"This computer fooled them into thinking it was human, so it must be able to think just like we do.\" Philosopher: \"If it performs the same function as a mind, then it is a mind.\" Text 1 on computer: \"i love you, do you love me too?\" Reply on computer: \"of course baby i love only you, but i'm having a problem with my visa, if you can just wire me $2000 i can sort it out and i'll be on my way to america next week\" Man: \"Of course her love is real, why would you even ask that?\" Scientist: \"This computer fooled him into thinking it was in love, so it must feel love just like we do.\" Philosopher: \"I mean, yes, if you have all the functions of love...\" Description: some ducks are quacking at a wooden duck with a tape inside playing duck noises. Scientist: \"This tape recorder inside a wooden duck has fooled the other ducks, so it must be able to think like a duck.\" Philosopher: \"Well, I mean, I suppose if the ducks thinks so...\" " title="None"><br /><hr /><br /><img src="//static.existentialcomics.com/comics/TuringTestsandOtherThingsofThatNature2.png" alt="Description: a magician is sawing a woman in half on stage. Audience member: \"Wow, he cut that woman in half! \" Scientist: \"This magician fooled the audience into thinking he has magic powers, that's functionally the same as really possessing the dark arts.\" Philosopher: \"Yeah, I suppose, functionally, that's all magic is...?\" Description: the scene from Looney Toons where the Roadrunner paints a tunnel on a wall and tricks the coyote into running into the wall. Scientist: \"The roadrunner fooled the coyote into thinking this painted wall was a tunnel, so it must be a tunnel.\" Philosopher: \"Hmm, I'm not sure about that one...\" Philosopher 1: \"So as you can see, philosophical zombies are incoherent, and if two things are functionally identical, then they are identical in fact.\" Philosopher 2: \"That sounds reasonable...\" Scientist: \"These philosophers fooled other philosophers into thinking the functional theory of mind is a good theory, so it must be a plausible theory of mind.\" Philosopher: \"Hey, wait a minute!\" " title="My wife found some suspicious text messages on my phone, but I convinced her I wasn't cheating, therefore..."> Mon, 31 Aug 2020 07:00:00 GMT https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/KXziYKIva_4jKK24ixTy8UzZuB_TiqRyjJ6U5nDCGxbPGPIZ9v7OyL1feC13RwsAvhKGw8IgofzHxqNC652TTg