5 philosophical mind games: ( Adapted from J Jones and W Wilson)
1) Zeno's arrow: The flight of an arrow is an apparent example of motion, but at any given moment it is where it is and where it is not, therefore not moving. This must have drove Zeno's friends crazy when he ranted about this
2) Plato's cave: shadows are reality. The search for a perfect car is an idea
3) Buri
dan's ass: A stumbling block to the act of free will. An ass, placed equidistant from 2 identical bundles of hay, has no bias for choosing one over the other and ends up starving to death. Likewise, a single doctor in Honolulu, placed equidistant between two sumptuous female targets, will be walking home alone.4) Occam's razor: One thing accounts for everything else that is going wrong. One diagnosis only: you know the rest of the story
and 5) Pascal's wager: In the cosmic game of heads or tails whether God exits, you have everything to gain and nothing to loose by betting on His existence
