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The Pig That Wants To Be Eaten And 99 Other Thought Experiments
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Published January 1, 2008
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May 22, 2025
Throwaway grab bag of 100 short ethical, moral and logical conundrums, each only 2 or 3 pages long, designed as quick “thought experiments” to cogitate over.
How much you enjoy them may actually depend on how your brain works… in my case, 90% of them felt like they had no real-world engagement and therefore easy to dismiss as purely academic. It’s also worth mentioning that a few dozen are simply rewordings of similar basic thought experiments elsewhere in the book (as evidenced by the cross-referencing throughout) e.g. at least three are “Matrix”-like “Is anything real?” propositions.
Either a fun diversion, or an annoying collection of pointless semantic arguments depending on your point of view, who this book will appeal to might actually be a philosophical dilemma in its own right…
How much you enjoy them may actually depend on how your brain works… in my case, 90% of them felt like they had no real-world engagement and therefore easy to dismiss as purely academic. It’s also worth mentioning that a few dozen are simply rewordings of similar basic thought experiments elsewhere in the book (as evidenced by the cross-referencing throughout) e.g. at least three are “Matrix”-like “Is anything real?” propositions.
Either a fun diversion, or an annoying collection of pointless semantic arguments depending on your point of view, who this book will appeal to might actually be a philosophical dilemma in its own right…
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