Thot Experiments
This story uses a cat in a sealed box to ask if the cat is alive or dead until you look.
What is Schrodingers Cat?
100 players shoot each other in a utilitarian style stadium for momentary glory.
What is Fortnite?
He asked lots of simple questions, taught by asking students, and said we should examine our lives..
Who is Socrates?
A religion and cultural tradition centered on the Torah, community, and following God’s teachings.
What is Judaism?
This branch asks how we should act and what is right or wrong.
What is Ethics?
This puzzle asks: if every plank of a ship is replaced one by one, is it still the same ship?
What is Ship of Theseus?
Takes place in various American cities where crimes are normal and players are able to live out a violent fantasy (robbing, killing, etc.)
What is GTA V?
A student of Socrates who wrote dialogues and told the Cave story about reality.
A religion and philosophy teaching the Four Noble Truths; practice kindness and meditation to reduce suffering.
What is Buddhism?
The study of beauty, art, and what makes things pleasing or meaningful to look at.
What is Aesthetics?
A runaway trolley is heading toward five people. Would you flip a switch to send it toward one person instead?
What is the Trolley Problem?
You play as God, controlling your subjects however you please: building their houses, creating their relationships, simulating a life you never had.
What is the Sims?
A student of Plato who studied nature, logic, and many sciences. Founded Virtue Ethics and founded Formal Logic
The idea of staying calm, controlling feelings, and accepting what you can’t change.
What is Stoicism?
The study of good reasoning and the rules for making clear arguments.
What is Logic?
People chained in a cave see only shadows and think that’s all that’s real — what if they left and saw the outside?
What is Plato's allegory of the Cave
Idealizing one pink princess for all eternity; chasing her through dangerous levels yet inevitably letting her go every time.
What is Super Mario Bros.?
Famous for “I think, therefore I am,” he helped start modern philosophy.
Who is Renee Descartes
Focuses on making your own meaning and choosing how to live even when life feels uncertain.
What is Existentialism?
The study of knowledge — how we know things and what counts as true knowledge.
What is Epistemology?
This thought experiment argues that believing in God may be the safest choice because if God exists the reward is infinite, and if God does not exist the loss is small.
What is Pascal's Wager
What is Call of Duty?
He wrote about how we know things and how reason sets limits on our knowledge (wrote Critique of Pure Reason).
Who is Immanuel Kant?
The idea that seeking pleasure and avoiding pain is the best life.
What is Hedonism
The study of what is real — what exists and what things are made of.
What is Metaphysics?