There's too many to write or even summarize, I'll pick just one.
Let's take a trip down Descartes lane. Ever read Descartes meditations? Well, if you haven't, it's where the phrase "I think, therefore I am" comes from. Fun fact: He never actually says that. It's just a summary of his ruminations. He basically made the argument that it's idiotic to live your life without understanding the fundamentals of reality around you. I liken it to building a house. You want to build your house on strong fundamental supports. If your base foundations are shit, your house is pretty easy to break or destroy. Nature might even tear it apart. So better build your shit with good fundamentals.
Anyway, fundamentals of reality. He decided to go back and anaylze what things are; to get a fundamental understanding of reality. Well, he very quickly encountered a problem. You can't know *shit*. Just - you can't. Your senses are deciavble, and that is easy to prove. He used 2 examples - dreams, and wax. In dreams, your brain believes them to be reality. Wax appears solid, but when heated, it melts into a liquid. In other words, you can't trust your senses. Because you can't trust your senses, you can't actually know anything other than you exist. The only reason you can know this, is because you're thinking. Everything else? Out the window. Other people? How can you know they're real? You can't really know anything is real. The only thing you can know is that *something* exists, because you can think. But who knows what that something actually is?
Well, that's an interesting thought. I have an argument based off of it. If we know something exists, we can postulate that... well... things exist. Here's my question: If something can exist, can *nothing* exist? I argue it can't. Non-existence is a fundamental clash with existence. You can't have both.
Well, if we just go along and assume that's true, there's a lot of suprising stuff you can conclude from that. If nothing can't exist, than everything must exist. Because if something didn't exist, that would be a form of non-existance. So I argue that because you know something exists, you can determine that everything exists. From that, I argue that you can say that all of reality is an interconnected, infinite whole. As in, it's all 1 thing. It's not 2 things, it's not 3 things, it's not a gajillion things. It's all 1 infinite whole piece. Any definition of something you then make (like an apple, say) is then an arbitrary definition that is really not something seperate or different from yourself. You just decide it's different. All it really is, is an iteration of a larger infinite fractal. I argue that's why you can divide something infinitely and never reach 0. It's because infinity is inifinity, and if this reality is infinite, then there never is a 0. It doesn't exist in a physical sense. You can reduce forever, and increase forever.
So yeah, that's cool.
Question:
What's your favorite keyboard?
Edit: Typos and stuff.