Category: Philosophy
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Being okay with “not knowing”
Richard Feynman, a famous physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project, in an interview, was asked, from a fundamental standpoint, why two magnets either attract or repel one another. Feynman articulated a response that had little to do with magnets, but with the nature of asking “why” anything happens. He said that he could have…
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Chess should be in the Olympics
The rudimentary argument for why chess isn’t in the Olympics is because it doesn’t require overt physical exertion. It is a mental sport, not a physical one. So what? I want to watch chess. The distinction of the body and mind, the physical and mental, originates with Rene Descartes’ formulation of Dualism in his book…