Calvin Sharpe Answers Philosophical Questions

Let’s start the year off with some clarity by sweeping away some of those tired philosophical questions that have been eating at us.

What is the sound of one hand clapping? Here you go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6YSfEKMeC8

The Trolley Problem (Should you turn a switch that forces a trolley to run over one person to save five people?) Yes, but don’t be a jerk about it, you know? For all other variations, maximize lives saved while minimizing the jerk coefficient.

Is there a grand design, or is the universe inherently chaotic? Yes.

What is Love? Pretty Cool.

What is the meaning of Life?

a : the quality that distinguishes a vital and functional being from a dead body

b : a principle or force that is considered to underlie the distinctive quality of animate beings

c : an organismic state characterized by capacity for metabolism (see metabolism sense 1), growth, reaction to stimuli, and reproduction

That last one really annoys me when people ask. Like, dictionaries have existed for hundreds of years, look it up!

If I missed any, just ask in the comments, I’ll get you squared away. Happy 2021.