The Spider in the Urinal - one of 9 Unsettling Philosophical Thought Experiments

hmg

Victory lap

• Sep 18, 2013

• #1

This bloke put out the call for disturbing thought experiments, so I suggested The Parable of the Spider in the Urinal, which is good, but some of the others have legs in them too

http://io9.com/9-philosophical-thought-experiments-that-will-keep-you-1340952809

 

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baboon2004

Darned cockwombles.

• Sep 19, 2013

• #2

Jesus, that's so sad...

 

hmg

Victory lap

• Sep 19, 2013

• #3

baboon2004 said:

Jesus, that's so sad...

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I think it might be bollocks. No way that spider wouldn't make a break for it if it was remotely able to. They've been in worse scrapes over the past half a billion years. You can't base your entire cosmogony on the case of one piss-frazzled spider.

 

Sectionfive

bandwagon house

• Sep 20, 2013

• #4

in fairness the spider didn't die in piss