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As far as the paradox of age, the reason people get happier as they get older is because they begin to understand what's important in life and they stop sweating the small stuff. So it has nothing to do with the deterioration of their body as they age it's the maturing of their mind.
When I minored in philosophy I was taught that Zeno's Paradox was him being sarcastic in response to Pythagoras saying there are an infinite number of points between two points.
I served in the Armed Forces; A Company is usually 150-300 people, a Battalion is 3-5 companies a Brigade is 3-6 Battalions. Out of the various units I have been in NO ONE EVER shared my birthday in 11 years. I know this because I usually had access to that information along with blood types and SSNs. I have seen or known of hundreds people that happened to be Christmas, New Years and even Leap Year babys. (Even my wife is a leap-year child.)Yet no one ever had my birthday. I even was in the same 35 man Platoon (usually 20-50 people in size) with a man whose SSN was only 10 digits away from my own SSN. BUT at my second job after the Service, 4 people in my building (of less than 40 employees) had the same birthday as I do!!One 15 years younger than me, one 8 years younger, one 3 years younger than me the last one 24 years older than myself. All of these facts are astoundingly rare on their own, let alone coupled like this.
the birthday paradox doesn't work that way, it's not that your birthday needs to match someone else's birthday, but rather someone in that group matches someone else's birthday.
I've had this broom for 50 years, only had 4 heads and 2 handles. Put some food outside the box, schrodingers cat will either scratch to get out or meow, no need to open (or touch) the box to find if dead or alive
@@cameronliddell9533 I had a boss who wanted me to file folders AND answer the phone AND type dictation. I can't be in two places and do THREE different things at the same time
#20 I grew up in a very small town of about 400 people. My school, all K-12, was in one building, so the normal class-size was extremely small. When my sister was in First Grade, she shared her unusual first name (Midge) with the teacher, and they both shared the same birthday.
My husband and my biological sister's boyfriend share a B-day and our youngest almost did too. They are about 12 hours off. People as they age are not happier, they just learn to be content, because if they complain that is always what they will attract. Nobody wants a room full of complainers.
The double negative paradox... A linguistics professor says during a lecture that, “In English, a double negative forms a positive. But in some languages, such as Russian, a double negative is still a negative. However, in no language in the world can a double positive form a negative.” But then a voice from the back of the room piped up, “Yeah, right.”
old joke: Two doctors walk into a bar and sit together, drinking. Another patron comes in, sees them, and asks the bartender if there is a physicians' convention in town. The bartender says, "I don't know why you say that, they're just a pair of docs" (aka paradox)
Thank you for properly explaining Catch-22! For some weird reason, it angers me when someone says Catch -22 means Damned if you do, damned if you don't! Great book, by the way...I found it even more funny after I spent time in the Marines!
#17 Paradox of Happiness Most never realize, but when one tries to be happy, they tend to see and focus on all of the reasons why they do not yet feel happy. That leads directly to unhappiness, which leads to more wanting to be happy, which leads to more unhappiness and so on. You end up creating a looping paradox within a paradox.
Those who study human productivity will tell you true multitasking is a myth. At best, you can rapidly switch attention and focus from one task to another and back again. So we do not perform multiple tasks at the same time, but instead we might perform multiple tasks within the same interval of time. But we never truly perform multiple tasks at exactly the same moment in time.
A goat would be a win. I already have a car. I don't have a goat. I have a dog, two pigs, two sheep, three horses and a duck... But no goat... I want a goat!
Hi Mike, I have 1½ paradoxes for you lol. (The half picks up where you left off with one.) The Bootstrap Paradox. It was the basis of a film fairly recently regarding John Lennon, or so I believe (haven't seen it), but I love the Dr Who version of it. (Obviously I'm paraphrasing, but the outcome is the same.) A composer is pretty much obsessed with Beethoven and his music. He gets the opportunity to go back in time to Bonn (Beethoven's birthplace) during Beethoven's life there. He decides to take a copy of the sheet music of every piece LVB ever wrote to get the great composer to sign them. However, when he gets there, nobody has ever heard of him, not even his family. There's no sign of someone who is pretending to be someone else but can only be LVB because he's playing that music. Worried that the music he still has in his possession will disappear (à la Back to the Future and the photo), he changes his name and after copying it onto the manuscript paper of the time, "publishes" the first piece. This is successful and there's no sign of his hero popping up and complaining so he repeats his action with the second opus, and so on. During that time he does as LVB did and travels, settling in Vienna (I hope my memory is good enough here. Please forgive any errors, it's stupid o'clock in the morning here.) The paradox is, who wrote the music? If Beethoven never existed, how was the music written by him? Did the modern composer write it all along with the ability to travel in time always being the key to the existence of the music? There are numerous versions of this, but I love Peter Capaldi's explanation so much! Btw, Theseus wasn't the name of the ship but its owner/captain. There's a second part to that paradox and it asks that if all of the original materials which were replaced are used to build a replica (though one assumes a tatty and rather leaky one!), is that replica now the "real" ship of Theseus? Enjoy!
The Media Paradox: Statistically, airline travel is the safest mode of transportation when comparing the number of safe, uneventful flights to crashes. Since airline crashes are so rare, the media responds with blanket coverage, and they try to keep the story alive as long as possible. Because of the media reportage, people then think that airline travel is extremely dangerous and the least safe way to travel.
My friend and I have the same birthday as well. Also 2 girl friends of mine have the same birthday. A friend and my mom also had the same birthday. Finally my ex and a different friend had the same birthday.
Happiness is not giving a care in the world about what people think of you. I have a job at a fast food restaurant where I hate night shift with a passion, so I talk with my co-workers and joke about staying at work and going Gordon Ramsay on them, and day shift laughs about it.
I worked at a factory and there was a lady who could've passed for my twin. We were born the same day & year & everyone thought we were paternal twins who was separated at birth. 😂
The Monty Hall problem depends upon the algorithm used by Monty. If Monty wants the, you, player to lose, then he opens the other door to give you an opportunity to lose when you have a winning pick. Otherwise he would not have opened the door. People not changing their minds merely suggests they are untrusting of Monty, and why wouldn't they be? If Monty randomly chooses the door to open, then sometimes he would accidentally reveal the prize, but we know that never happens. If his goal is merely to make the show longer, and he does not care if the person wins or not, then it is 2/3 probability as the video says. However, if Monty wants the person to win perhaps as a means of communication during a rigged game, or if he is nice guy, then the player will win every time by changing. The thing that makes this fun is finding out if the player should have trusted Monty. If what the video says is true, that most players will remain with their original choice, that puts Monty in control. He can adjust his algorithm to get any average outcome he wants. The highest entropy algorithm, the least predictable, would be the one where he causes a 1/2 outcome.
@@d.e.b.b5788 Assuming that data you gather from monty is 'stationary'. It might be that Monty acts by a pattern where such an approach would not work. A refined approach would be hypothesize algorithms that he might employ, and to test if any correlate well with the historical data. Then add the assumption that if he did it before he will continue doing it. Such an assumption might not be a good one, for example when analysing coded messages, and then the code book is changed or the code page is turned. You could add a layer to that and hypothesize that some data determines which algorithm he will use, i.e. which page in the code book he will use, and then test that hypothesize against the data.
The total amount of brain power any one person has is 100%, and that doesn’t change no matter what you do, or how much coffee you drink. If you’re doing 2 tasks at once, the maximum amount of brain power you can give each task without losing some amount of focus on the other is 50%, 3 tasks 33.3%, 4 tasks 25% and so on
the envelope paradox and the Monte Hall paradox are the same paradox but different conclusions. The real answer is that there is no advantage in switching after one of the other two is revealed. See the first paradox that says statistics can lie.
The birthday one. I used to frequent a medical clinic where I was required to positively ID myself every time. State ID and SSN. Why? Because there were more than 7 people with the same first and last name. Some with the same middle name or just the initial. But most importantly... the same birth date.
@@julianaylor4351 I don’t know if you know about a show well the Price is Right? There was another game show where. The whole show is about if you want to change an envelope or box in the box? The contestants used to put alarm costumes Halloween? They would ask you what you’re supposed to be in the whole game is Santos and round if you want to change this for that.?
I'm 51 yrs old, and I have been an RN for 28 yrs. I have met literally hundreds of people. I have only ever met one person who shared my birthday. My first husband had the same birthday as mine, but he was ten years older than me.
You only gave half the paradox of Theseus' ship (which is named after the captain, not the ship). If every board, after being removed, is then restored, and another identical ship rebuilt using the same boards in the same places, and was placed next to the ship that is now completely new boards, which is now the true ship of Theseus?
I taught at a private school with small class sizes. One year, in a room of 10 people, I had 2 students with the same November birthday and 2 with the same June birthday. A couple of years later, in a room of 11 people, I had 3 people who shared the same November birthday (same 2 students and the TA).
Schroedinger is old news, where's the buttered cat? Or maybe it was just me, learning them in that order 🤔 Buttered cat is more amusing than serious, but at least no one dies.
I've solved zeno's paradox. Think of the universe as a 3d picture with all the particles in a fixed position. Space and time are linked. The big bang created every possible position that the particles that could be in and we jump to different ones moment to moment like a movie film.
You initially worded the birthday paradox wrong. "What are the odds one of them shares a birthday with you," is a TOTALLY DIFFERENT question from the actual paradox, which is "what are the odds any two of them share a birthday."
6:00 The Paradox of Aging is actually a Healthy Individual bias. The older an individual, the more likely that individual who do not have a life which makes them happy are significantly more likely to have passed away or be unavailable for polling, due to the things in their lives which would make them unhappy. Statistics can be decieving.
Just heard #25. That’s not a paradox it’s lateral thinking ! If someone in the pub is drinking then everyone in the pub is drinking. There’s only that one person in the pub. Statement correct 🤷♂️
For the hanging paradox, assuming the prisoner carries out the analysis you have given, then he will believe he cannot be hung on any day, and so he will therefore be surprised by a knock on the door at any time at all.
There is a twist for #3 Ship Of Theseus. Your intuition probably tells you the ship remains the same ship even as all the parts are replaced just as you believe you remain the same person as your molecules or cells are all replaced. However, if you also assume that as each part lf the ship is saved in storage after it is removed, and when all have been replaced the old parts are reassembled to make a ship, it seems this ship has at least as great a claim as the one with the newer parts to be Theseus' ship. They cannot both be The Ship Of Theseus, since they are not identical with each other.
It seems to me that they screwed up the Simpson's paradox. Here it is correctly explained: 1:55 "If person A shoots on target more often than person B, it doesn't necessarily mean that person B has had a higher shooting accuracy ..." Correct, that would mean that A shot more accurately. He totally lost me with that one. I guess what he means to say: Session 1: A: 2 out of 2 B: 7 out 8 A wins with 100% accuracy? B loses with 87.5% (Seems unfair as A only shot twice.) Session 2: A: 5 out of 8 B: 1 out 2 A wins again with with 62.5% accuracy, while B loses with 50% accuracy (Again seems unfair that B only shot twice.) Combined scores: A: 7 out of 10 B: 8 out of 10 So B was the more accurate shooter in total. Then at 2:26: he says "80% which is higher than person B" ... ah no, 80% was not higher than person B's score, rather 80% was person B's score. Lesson? That unfair matches judged on wins don't average out? That is a paradox?
"If person A shoots on target more times than person B, that doesn't necessarily mean that person B has had a higher shooting accuracy" ...of course it doesn't mean that? Why would you ever think that person B has a higher shooting accuracy than person A who shot on target more than person B? Wouldn't you naturally assume person A has a higher shooting accuracy? This is wracking my brain, am I not hearing/reading this right? Why is no one talking about this?
I was once sitting by a pool with 5 total strangers. We got onto the subject of zodiac signs. Amazingly, out of 6 total strangers....3 of us shared the same birthday...4th November,!! Btw....we were all different nationalities! 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
Monty Hall is nothing like the Envelope Paradox. For one thing, it is mathematically correct. The Envelope Paradox is based on an incorrect assumption. And in case you think otherwise, neither is like the Sleeping Beauty Paradox.
My favorite video game franchise has a paradox :0 in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, the main hero Link has an ocarina that helps him time travel from future to past. One instance he goes into the future to learn the song: Song of Storms. You learn it from the Phonogram Man in the future who talks about a boy teaching him the song. Go back in time and Link teaches the Phonogram man the Song of Storms. That means it was Link who taught the man the song but Link learned it from the same man in the future. So where did the song actually come from if not from Link and the Phonogram man who learned it from each other? And there we go, that’s the paradox
We test new medicines with control group and the regular group. We give half the people the real medicina and half get hey placebo. We study how many got relief from the medication or their different Illnesses get better. Different Bactria might get lower. Then we check if anyone in the control group has gotten any better. .
Most of the paradoxes involve Intention, or what some label as "Free Will". Now "Gabriel's Horn" is different. If you use the term 'painted', it infers a second substance as the "paint". The infinite surface area, with finite volume, indicates surfaces are available for quantum values. As such, the "paint" and surface area are available to quantum superpositioning. Therefore, the atoms or photons could be considered as infinite because each can (and will) be in multiple positions. So, the "Horn" is a mere construct for humans to try to envision our familiar dimensional matter and light in a finite 'shape' or 'volume'. Quantum theory goes beyond 'shape' and 'volume'. Guess I'm drunk.
19:16 ah no ... Plato was a student of Socrates, not the other way. Here we see Plato being schooled by Socrates. Perhaps Plato's greatest student was Aristotle. In any case, this paradox dates to the middle ages, so none of those guys were there. lol
In our family, you only need 3 people in the room for them to have the same birthday. My sons daughter, her other grandmother and my daughters son! They all have December 12th birthdays! When I was in high school, in another century 😂 my boyfriend and I had the same birthday.
8:43 But it doesn’t change the likelihood of your choice being right. It may technically change the odds from that point on, but I hasn’t increased your chances. You’re still either right or wrong. If anything you should keep your choice because you know one of the wrong ones has been taken away.
Had a female friend that introduced me to her new boyfriend only to find id known him for longer than she had. There was about 5 people she tried to introduce me to that i had known for longer then she had known them lol
3:48 This one falls apart if you think about it practically. People are too selfish and self-centered to focus on someone else and act accordingly at all times. At some point the real you is going to come out. And at some point it’s going to happen to both parties
25. this isn't paradox it's a logical fallacy. It relies on assumptions which is not causality, the only way the statement can be true is if there is only 1 person in the bar. 24. again not a paradox, but an example why statistics are manipulative and don't matter. interviewing just 1 person will give 100% of the results if you only interview that 1 person. it's more important to look at the actual numbers and ratios than the % itself. 23. the ship is no longer the ship once 50% is replaced and the new ship built from the old one is not the ship because it lost its structure and becomes a new ship. 22. this is not a paradox. it's a breakdown in communication. relying on understanding and acknowledgement is the bases for communication. if one side does not acknowledge the other or understand what was said it's a failure in communication. 21. not a paradox. it's based on chance. it's a gamble. you have no real way of knowing if you chose the better option or not. statistics are based on probability which they look at the history of chance and since a majority of time choosing to switch has gained the better option they say it's better when it really has no difference at all. 20. statistically its 23 people, but if you are born on February 29th in a leap year that number jumps to 242. the number will increase with lower population and decrease with a rise in the population. 19. another logical fallacy. it's not age but our experience and memories. people tend to be more happy and content in old age because they have accomplishments and things they did that they can reflect upon. it's why prisoners who spent most their lives in prison won't be as happy as someone who toured the world, got married, had kids, and built something themselves by hand. Age isn't the factor but the actions taken as they developed. 18. FOMO is not a paradox it has no contradictory ideals that cancel itself out and its only a thing for extroverts. Introverts experience something completely different. they feel relieved at the idea of missing out on things but they desire to socialize giving them a sort of strange fear of being alone. They don't care about the activity they just want people to think about them and spend time with them, but most times they prefer to stay in and be with someone as home is more comfortable and less stressful. 17. paradox of happiness isn't about the chasing and failing to achieve happiness its about the fact that a person doesn't really know what it will take to make them happy so they listen to what others think happiness is and strive for that. it's more of a lack of self awareness and confusion. 16. same as 23, it has no difference if you switch or not your choice is based on a gamble an while your odds went from 1 in 3 down to 1 in 2 making it a higher probability you will win, it still a 50/50 choice and switching won't matter no matter what statistics tell you. 15. not a paradox. it's more of a measure of cognitive abilities. lower concentration task can be done simultaneously without issue. the less brain activity it takes to complete something the easier it is to do with other task. splitting your focus doesn't matter if the task itself takes almost no focus to complete. while you shouldn't be trying to do brain surgery and disarm a bomb at the same time, it's quite possible to go for a run while listening to a podcast and walk your dog at the same time. 14. no paradox here either. the horn has no real structure thus it has no surface to speak of. 13. if the guard knocks on his door every day but does not hang him then he will be surprised when the hanging actually happens. the fact that the knock occurs ONLY when he is to be hanged is why this is a paradox. if you are signaled then it's no longer a surprise. the day has nothing to do with it. even if he waits until Friday it can be late that day or right when the day rolls over and still be a surprise because he doesn't know exactly WHEN on that day he will be hung. 12. another logical fallacy based on social interactions. some people have 0 friends some have over 1000. if a person with just 1 friend and that friend has 3 friends and introduces that 1 friend to the other 2 and they all become friends then that friend that introduced them has the same number as the friend that only had 1 to start. there are also "levels" of friendship that range from a casual acquaintance to someone who is closer than family. A friend from work or school can be someone that you just hang out with while you are at work or school and when you change jobs or graduate never see them again. then there can be childhood friends you grew away from that you meet up with again and become life buddies with. Also there are "online" friends that you do things with in the digital world but never meet in real life. it's not quantity but quality in this case. very few people have a ride or die friend that would help them hide a body and more than likely you'll never get more than can be counted on a hand. 11. there is aspects of our lives we can control. when a person tries to control everything it's an overreach of their capabilities. HOWEVER tools are in place to help people to do just that. the more wealth an influence a person has the more control they have over a situation. barring things like nature and chaos theory and focusing on social and economic situations a person can theoretically have complete control if they have enough power, money, and fame. 10. the cat should always assumed to be dead. why? because the cat is not immortal and in time will eventually end up dead as a final result. if the result is always going to end up in death as the final product given a period of time the burden of proof is to test to see if it's alive. same goes for a piece of ice melting in warm climate or if a fire remains burning. the result at the end should always be assumed as what is reality. 9. just like 17 this has more to do with cognitive ability than it does options. if a person already has an idea of what choices they wanted to make they can make instant informed decisions no matter how many options are presented. its only when a person doesn't know what they desire and are presented with a great deal of options do they get overwhelmed. in many cases this is because they try to weigh all of the options at once to make a decision quickly and struggle with the number of options. some can do this without struggle while others can struggle with just 3 options. it's more ability and quick thinking based on knowledge and experience. 8. not at all. the key is immersion. people like to put themselves in the story and identify as the character they watch or build a relationship with those characters. If the person builds a barrier between themselves and the characters then what happens becomes unrelatable and we wouldn't care if the "good guys" won or lost. We don't perceive them to be real, we use them as an escape from our reality imagining what it would be like to live in their world and do the things that they do. the emotions we feel from what happens in the story is the emotions we feel from seeing those things happen to us or the people we care about. 7. not a paradox at all, this is simple math and physics. think of a tightly packed ball of tin foil. you can peel layer of it and ball it up loosely and make several other balls the same size. 6. this is the idea you should always be exploring new things and keeping an open mind. you can't find what you didn't know you were looking for because you didn't know it exist but if you are always looking for everything statistically you will find it given enough time. 5. another logical fallacy. your observations are not what makes facts. you can only theorize based on observations which change each time new or different information is added. all Chevys are vehicles but not all vehicles are Chevys. 4. this is a lack of perception, time, and space. it has nothing to do with a paradox. people that came up with this can't perceive the idea of distance, speed, or time. they make assumptions like the turtle is always moving at the same distance and speed as the person and that the number of steps never decrease because the rest stays constant. it's like the flat earthers that can't see the curve so they assume there is no globe. its a perception disorder not a failure of logic. 3. it's a 50/50 result for each day. but it ends when 1 result of that chance is achieved. this means that its a 1 in 3 chance since the 2nd result will continue to the next day. there is 2 chances it continues and 1 chance it ends giving it 3 chances. it's another based on a gamble and the probability doesn't determine the number of chances only the results. 2. a logical fallacy again. the reason to leave may not be based on the fear of death. if a person wants to leave for a different reason based on something illogical it can still prove the persons mental instability. a fear of death also doesn't guarantee a rational state of mind. a better catch 22 would be like the old "make more money" scam society places on others. you want to make more money so you need a better job, to get a better job you need a good education, to get that education... you need more money. its a circular trap that relies on the very thing you need in order to get what it takes to get the thing you want. 1. pull him into the water. if he is not pushed then it was a lie. wording is very important to determine if something is a paradox or not.
25. It isn’t a logical fallacy. A statement can be true or false. The only fallacy is assuming it must be true. 24. It is a veridical paradox: something violates one’s intuition, but is true. 23. The ship is no longer the “same” ship if one part is changed. It is, say, 99% the same and 1%1. If some logic allows you to use binary logic and call absolutely the same, then it applies to each change of a single part. Even after they all are replaced. There is no justification for your arbitrary 50%. 22. It is not a breakdown in communication. It’s a non sequitur. The conclusion that there is an endless loop denies that a commonality can be reached. 21. The apparent contradiction is not based on chance. It’s a misunderstanding about how probability works. 20. No idea where you get 242. It’s wrong. The "magic number" is between the one for 365 days and 366. 16. Nothing like 23. It can be demonstrated with experiment. Going into the game with the intent to switch improves your chances to 2/3. It is 1/3 if you intend to stay. This is another veridical paradox, since people who do not understand conditional probability think your chances are 1/2 either way. 14. Veridical Paradox. It is a thought problem. 13. Completely wrong. Knocking has nothing to do with it. The issue is that the judge made a condition about an event, whose truth cannot be established until after the event has happened but can only be evaluated before. 10. Very misguided. A better example is if I shake an opaque box with a coin inside it. Does the coin end up showing Heads or Tails? Now, say a million people do this with a million boxes. How many are Heads, and how many are Tails? The principle in quantum mechanics says, essentially, that a single non-observed coin functions as the average of the million. 7. It is an incorrect application of mathematics to physics, and nothing like your tin foil example. It assumes there is no conservation of mass. Mathematics can divide an infinite set into two sets of the same “size” (really, “cardinality”). For example, the Natural Numbers can be divided into the Odd Numbers and the Even Numbers. But that assumes there is no property subject to a conservation law associated with them to make that "size" comparison. 5. He didn’t present the paradox well. And it truly is only a paradox in the minds of philosophers. It's about how you use the information "not a vehicle." 4. Completely wrong. Zeno simply failed to recognize that the infinite sequence 1/2+1/4+1/8+… converges to 1. And that it applies to both time and distance in his problem. That is, that saying you can never reach point X, is the same as saying there is a time T that can never be reached. 3. Wrong. It can’t “end” because of the amnesia drug. 2. You don’t understand the “paradox.” The person wants to use a rule to leave. The use of the rule requires that the rule does not apply. 1. Making a statement does not guarantee that the truth of the statement can be determined.
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@@manueltapia1859 same
As far as the paradox of age, the reason people get happier as they get older is because they begin to understand what's important in life and they stop sweating the small stuff. So it has nothing to do with the deterioration of their body as they age it's the maturing of their mind.
Simple as that
When I minored in philosophy I was taught that Zeno's Paradox was him being sarcastic in response to Pythagoras saying there are an infinite number of points between two points.
I served in the Armed Forces; A Company is usually 150-300 people, a Battalion is 3-5 companies a Brigade is 3-6 Battalions. Out of the various units I have been in NO ONE EVER shared my birthday in 11 years. I know this because I usually had access to that information along with blood types and SSNs. I have seen or known of hundreds people that happened to be Christmas, New Years and even Leap Year babys. (Even my wife is a leap-year child.)Yet no one ever had my birthday.
I even was in the same 35 man Platoon (usually 20-50 people in size) with a man whose SSN was only 10 digits away from my own SSN.
BUT at my second job after the Service, 4 people in my building (of less than 40 employees) had the same birthday as I do!!One 15 years younger than me, one 8 years younger, one 3 years younger than me the last one 24 years older than myself.
All of these facts are astoundingly rare on their own, let alone coupled like this.
I think the real question is if you saved all the original repaired pieces and build a ship with them would that be the original ship?
the birthday paradox doesn't work that way, it's not that your birthday needs to match someone else's birthday, but rather someone in that group matches someone else's birthday.
He worded the birthday paradox wrong.
@@DavidMiller212 I understood it I was just speaking about the odds of birthdays being 1 out of THOUSANDS of people to later being 1 in 10.
I have to ask, what is your birthdate?
Contentment is a better goal than Happiness.
Perfection is unobtainable.
Strive for excellence.
I've had this broom for 50 years, only had 4 heads and 2 handles.
Put some food outside the box, schrodingers cat will either scratch to get out or meow, no need to open (or touch) the box to find if dead or alive
Multitasking works with simple tasks that don’t require thinking and in some situations it’s absolutely necessary
you multitask everytime you cook
@@cameronliddell9533 I had a boss who wanted me to file folders AND answer the phone AND type dictation.
I can't be in two places and do THREE different things at the same time
@@cameronliddell9533how so?
#20 I grew up in a very small town of about 400 people. My school, all K-12, was in one building, so the normal class-size was extremely small. When my sister was in First Grade, she shared her unusual first name (Midge) with the teacher, and they both shared the same birthday.
My husband and my biological sister's boyfriend share a B-day and our youngest almost did too. They are about 12 hours off.
People as they age are not happier, they just learn to be content, because if they complain that is always what they will attract. Nobody wants a room full of complainers.
The double negative paradox...
A linguistics professor says during a lecture that,
“In English, a double negative forms a positive. But in some languages, such as Russian, a double negative is still a negative. However, in no language in the world can a double positive form a negative.”
But then a voice from the back of the room piped up,
“Yeah, right.”
😂 that's brilliant! I get it!
lmaoo
Paradox: If List 25 is nothing without Mike, How did it stay alive without him?
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It didn't do very well.
Patience by his fans. We kept the faith that he would return, and he did.
Simon Whistler probably had a part behind the scenes on that.
It didn't they changed their name and bombed big time and changed it back when Mike came back
old joke: Two doctors walk into a bar and sit together, drinking. Another patron comes in, sees them, and asks the bartender if there is a physicians' convention in town. The bartender says, "I don't know why you say that, they're just a pair of docs" (aka paradox)
Thank you for properly explaining Catch-22! For some weird reason, it angers me when someone says Catch -22 means Damned if you do, damned if you don't! Great book, by the way...I found it even more funny after I spent time in the Marines!
Ship of Theseus paradox is also the paradox of Trigger's Broom (Only Fools and Horses)🤣
#17 Paradox of Happiness
Most never realize, but when one tries to be happy, they tend to see and focus on all of the reasons why they do not yet feel happy. That leads directly to unhappiness, which leads to more wanting to be happy, which leads to more unhappiness and so on.
You end up creating a looping paradox within a paradox.
Those who study human productivity will tell you true multitasking is a myth. At best, you can rapidly switch attention and focus from one task to another and back again. So we do not perform multiple tasks at the same time, but instead we might perform multiple tasks within the same interval of time. But we never truly perform multiple tasks at exactly the same moment in time.
A goat would be a win. I already have a car. I don't have a goat. I have a dog, two pigs, two sheep, three horses and a duck... But no goat... I want a goat!
Hi Mike, I have 1½ paradoxes for you lol. (The half picks up where you left off with one.)
The Bootstrap Paradox. It was the basis of a film fairly recently regarding John Lennon, or so I believe (haven't seen it), but I love the Dr Who version of it. (Obviously I'm paraphrasing, but the outcome is the same.)
A composer is pretty much obsessed with Beethoven and his music. He gets the opportunity to go back in time to Bonn (Beethoven's birthplace) during Beethoven's life there. He decides to take a copy of the sheet music of every piece LVB ever wrote to get the great composer to sign them.
However, when he gets there, nobody has ever heard of him, not even his family. There's no sign of someone who is pretending to be someone else but can only be LVB because he's playing that music. Worried that the music he still has in his possession will disappear (à la Back to the Future and the photo), he changes his name and after copying it onto the manuscript paper of the time, "publishes" the first piece. This is successful and there's no sign of his hero popping up and complaining so he repeats his action with the second opus, and so on. During that time he does as LVB did and travels, settling in Vienna (I hope my memory is good enough here. Please forgive any errors, it's stupid o'clock in the morning here.)
The paradox is, who wrote the music? If Beethoven never existed, how was the music written by him? Did the modern composer write it all along with the ability to travel in time always being the key to the existence of the music?
There are numerous versions of this, but I love Peter Capaldi's explanation so much!
Btw, Theseus wasn't the name of the ship but its owner/captain. There's a second part to that paradox and it asks that if all of the original materials which were replaced are used to build a replica (though one assumes a tatty and rather leaky one!), is that replica now the "real" ship of Theseus?
Enjoy!
The Media Paradox:
Statistically, airline travel is the safest mode of transportation when comparing the number of safe, uneventful flights to crashes. Since airline crashes are so rare, the media responds with blanket coverage, and they try to keep the story alive as long as possible. Because of the media reportage, people then think that airline travel is extremely dangerous and the least safe way to travel.
I can have 2 people in the same room where it is 1 to1. My mom and roommate have the same birthday, just different years. LOL
My friend and I have the same birthday as well. Also 2 girl friends of mine have the same birthday. A friend and my mom also had the same birthday. Finally my ex and a different friend had the same birthday.
Happiness is not giving a care in the world about what people think of you. I have a job at a fast food restaurant where I hate night shift with a passion, so I talk with my co-workers and joke about staying at work and going Gordon Ramsay on them, and day shift laughs about it.
I worked at a factory and there was a lady who could've passed for my twin. We were born the same day & year & everyone thought we were paternal twins who was separated at birth. 😂
The Monty Hall problem depends upon the algorithm used by Monty.
If Monty wants the, you, player to lose, then he opens the other door to give you an opportunity to lose when you have a winning pick. Otherwise he would not have opened the door. People not changing their minds merely suggests they are untrusting of Monty, and why wouldn't they be?
If Monty randomly chooses the door to open, then sometimes he would accidentally reveal the prize, but we know that never happens. If his goal is merely to make the show longer, and he does not care if the person wins or not, then it is 2/3 probability as the video says.
However, if Monty wants the person to win perhaps as a means of communication during a rigged game, or if he is nice guy, then the player will win every time by changing.
The thing that makes this fun is finding out if the player should have trusted Monty.
If what the video says is true, that most players will remain with their original choice, that puts Monty in control. He can adjust his algorithm to get any average outcome he wants. The highest entropy algorithm, the least predictable, would be the one where he causes a 1/2 outcome.
Or; you can watch the games before going on one, and note patterns of Monty's behavior whenever he does this switch offer with contestants.
@@d.e.b.b5788 Assuming that data you gather from monty is 'stationary'. It might be that Monty acts by a pattern where such an approach would not work. A refined approach would be hypothesize algorithms that he might employ, and to test if any correlate well with the historical data. Then add the assumption that if he did it before he will continue doing it. Such an assumption might not be a good one, for example when analysing coded messages, and then the code book is changed or the code page is turned. You could add a layer to that and hypothesize that some data determines which algorithm he will use, i.e. which page in the code book he will use, and then test that hypothesize against the data.
more to the point, you might want the goat!
Watched for a long time then quit watching for awhile and back to watching again lol you do make some good videos Mike !!!
The total amount of brain power any one person has is 100%, and that doesn’t change no matter what you do, or how much coffee you drink. If you’re doing 2 tasks at once, the maximum amount of brain power you can give each task without losing some amount of focus on the other is 50%, 3 tasks 33.3%, 4 tasks 25% and so on
but youre only using 10-15% of that 100% at any given time. Nothing requires 100% of your brain 100% of the time
This channel rocks. No overbearing music, narrated with beautiful clarity and best of all, lots of knowledge. 💯🔥
In order to travel 100 feet, you need to travel 50 feet. The distances got covered faster as we zoom in so we can indeed move
"How many friends do you have"?
Do my cats count? If not then no. I have no friends.
the envelope paradox and the Monte Hall paradox are the same paradox but different conclusions. The real answer is that there is no advantage in switching after one of the other two is revealed. See the first paradox that says statistics can lie.
There's been continual conflict over which of the answers is correct.
The birthday one. I used to frequent a medical clinic where I was required to positively ID myself every time. State ID and SSN. Why? Because there were more than 7 people with the same first and last name. Some with the same middle name or just the initial. But most importantly... the same birth date.
What you said about changing the envelopes. That is and has been done on game shows.
Deal Or No Deal, where it's boxes or cases.
@@julianaylor4351 I don’t know if you know about a show well the Price is Right? There was another game show where. The whole show is about if you want to change an envelope or box in the box? The contestants used to put alarm costumes Halloween? They would ask you what you’re supposed to be in the whole game is Santos and round if you want to change this for that.?
Those Paradoxes Fascinates my Autistic Brain!
I Wish more for this!
I would have put the most famous paradox, that of Zeno, at the top of the list.
Im 50 years old and have met only one person who shares my birthday, my friends mom. Her brother shares my sisters birthday
I'm 51 yrs old, and I have been an RN for 28 yrs. I have met literally hundreds of people. I have only ever met one person who shared my birthday. My first husband had the same birthday as mine, but he was ten years older than me.
I would actually be thrilled if I won a goat.... They are adorable and fun as fuck! 🐐
Hell yeah. I'd love having a goat to chill with.
😂 That was my thought as well!
I once personally knew 5 people with my DOB. Today I of know 2.
You only gave half the paradox of Theseus' ship (which is named after the captain, not the ship).
If every board, after being removed, is then restored, and another identical ship rebuilt using the same boards in the same places, and was placed next to the ship that is now completely new boards, which is now the true ship of Theseus?
which ever ship the captain is on
Can you do a list of 25 on left handed people??
@DontDelete-fp8oy how is spamming I just like him to do a video on left handedness
I taught at a private school with small class sizes. One year, in a room of 10 people, I had 2 students with the same November birthday and 2 with the same June birthday. A couple of years later, in a room of 11 people, I had 3 people who shared the same November birthday (same 2 students and the TA).
Schroedinger is old news, where's the buttered cat? Or maybe it was just me, learning them in that order 🤔 Buttered cat is more amusing than serious, but at least no one dies.
Schrödinger's cat walked into a bar...and didn't.
I've solved zeno's paradox. Think of the universe as a 3d picture with all the particles in a fixed position. Space and time are linked. The big bang created every possible position that the particles that could be in and we jump to different ones moment to moment like a movie film.
Only fools and horses Trigger explains the Theseus paradox with his broom. A classic
When they checked on Schrodinger's animals they didn't have a key to the house, so to this day they dont know
You initially worded the birthday paradox wrong. "What are the odds one of them shares a birthday with you," is a TOTALLY DIFFERENT question from the actual paradox, which is "what are the odds any two of them share a birthday."
Thanks - I came here to say that.
6:00 The Paradox of Aging is actually a Healthy Individual bias. The older an individual, the more likely that individual who do not have a life which makes them happy are significantly more likely to have passed away or be unavailable for polling, due to the things in their lives which would make them unhappy. Statistics can be decieving.
The game show is LET'S MAKE A DEAL, bub. The HOST is Monty Hall. He was a game show legend! Maybe you were confusing the game with 3 Card Monty?
There's the paradox of time. If i went back in time and I killed my grandfather, would I be born. If I wasn't born, how can I go back in time? etc.
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Great video! 😁
Yay, Mike day!
My brain hurts, but this was interesting.
You said what I was feeling! Brain hurts!
Just heard #25. That’s not a paradox it’s lateral thinking ! If someone in the pub is drinking then everyone in the pub is drinking. There’s only that one person in the pub. Statement correct 🤷♂️
Plato was the student of Socrates, not the other way round.
For the hanging paradox, assuming the prisoner carries out the analysis you have given, then he will believe he cannot be hung on any day, and so he will therefore be surprised by a knock on the door at any time at all.
Can you bring back the theme music?
I've lived buridan's bridge. Lol love how smart and funny it can be at the same time.
There is a twist for #3 Ship Of Theseus. Your intuition probably tells you the ship remains the same ship even as all the parts are replaced just as you believe you remain the same person as your molecules or cells are all replaced. However, if you also assume that as each part lf the ship is saved in storage after it is removed, and when all have been replaced the old parts are reassembled to make a ship, it seems this ship has at least as great a claim as the one with the newer parts to be Theseus' ship. They cannot both be The Ship Of Theseus, since they are not identical with each other.
List 24. Simpson's Paradox. I think that your aim of the arrow hitting the target could off when you factor in the person's daily activities.
It seems to me that they screwed up the Simpson's paradox. Here it is correctly explained:
1:55 "If person A shoots on target more often than person B, it doesn't necessarily mean that person B has had a higher shooting accuracy ..." Correct, that would mean that A shot more accurately. He totally lost me with that one. I guess what he means to say:
Session 1:
A: 2 out of 2
B: 7 out 8
A wins with 100% accuracy? B loses with 87.5% (Seems unfair as A only shot twice.)
Session 2:
A: 5 out of 8
B: 1 out 2
A wins again with with 62.5% accuracy, while B loses with 50% accuracy (Again seems unfair that B only shot twice.)
Combined scores:
A: 7 out of 10
B: 8 out of 10
So B was the more accurate shooter in total.
Then at 2:26: he says "80% which is higher than person B" ... ah no, 80% was not higher than person B's score, rather 80% was person B's score.
Lesson? That unfair matches judged on wins don't average out? That is a paradox?
"If person A shoots on target more times than person B, that doesn't necessarily mean that person B has had a higher shooting accuracy"
...of course it doesn't mean that? Why would you ever think that person B has a higher shooting accuracy than person A who shot on target more than person B? Wouldn't you naturally assume person A has a higher shooting accuracy?
This is wracking my brain, am I not hearing/reading this right? Why is no one talking about this?
I was once sitting by a pool with 5 total strangers. We got onto the subject of zodiac signs. Amazingly, out of 6 total strangers....3 of us shared the same birthday...4th November,!! Btw....we were all different nationalities! 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
8:28 The Month Hall is just the envelope paradox
Monty Hall is nothing like the Envelope Paradox. For one thing, it is mathematically correct. The Envelope Paradox is based on an incorrect assumption. And in case you think otherwise, neither is like the Sleeping Beauty Paradox.
Here is another really good paradox: infinite hotel problem. This paradox presents the concept of infinity and how infinite can and can’t exist.
If all the original members of a band die and replaced with new members
Is it still the original band. ?
Maybe the name
My sister, my best friend and husband all have the same birthday. My two older kids, born 4 years part, share the same birthday.
My favorite video game franchise has a paradox :0 in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, the main hero Link has an ocarina that helps him time travel from future to past. One instance he goes into the future to learn the song: Song of Storms. You learn it from the Phonogram Man in the future who talks about a boy teaching him the song. Go back in time and Link teaches the Phonogram man the Song of Storms. That means it was Link who taught the man the song but Link learned it from the same man in the future. So where did the song actually come from if not from Link and the Phonogram man who learned it from each other? And there we go, that’s the paradox
Socrates was Plato's teacher, Aristotle was Plato's student.
We test new medicines with control group and the regular group. We give half the people the real medicina and half get hey placebo. We study how many got relief from the medication or their different Illnesses get better. Different Bactria might get lower. Then we check if anyone in the control group has gotten any better. .
A guy works for the same company I do and the last four of our social security numbers are the same
actual cat at 12:28 and he looks like mine!
Most of the paradoxes involve Intention, or what some label as "Free Will". Now "Gabriel's Horn" is different. If you use the term 'painted', it infers a second substance as the "paint". The infinite surface area, with finite volume, indicates surfaces are available for quantum values. As such, the "paint" and surface area are available to quantum superpositioning. Therefore, the atoms or photons could be considered as infinite because each can (and will) be in multiple positions. So, the "Horn" is a mere construct for humans to try to envision our familiar dimensional matter and light in a finite 'shape' or 'volume'. Quantum theory goes beyond 'shape' and 'volume'. Guess I'm drunk.
19:16 ah no ... Plato was a student of Socrates, not the other way. Here we see Plato being schooled by Socrates. Perhaps Plato's greatest student was Aristotle. In any case, this paradox dates to the middle ages, so none of those guys were there. lol
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8:05 Monty Python? I think you mean Monty Hall. 😂😂😂😂
In our family, you only need 3 people in the room for them to have the same birthday. My sons daughter, her other grandmother and my daughters son! They all have December 12th birthdays! When I was in high school, in another century 😂 my boyfriend and I had the same birthday.
Self Cloning 7yrs! ☯️💥
well I need to smoke a bitt for this one ;)
6174 is a gorgeous caprekar four digit integer
I been on this earth for 50 years and I never ever met someone in person with the same birthday
Your best!!!!!
8:43 But it doesn’t change the likelihood of your choice being right. It may technically change the odds from that point on, but I hasn’t increased your chances. You’re still either right or wrong. If anything you should keep your choice because you know one of the wrong ones has been taken away.
If Pinocchio said "my nose is about to grow" Would it?
Had a female friend that introduced me to her new boyfriend only to find id known him for longer than she had. There was about 5 people she tried to introduce me to that i had known for longer then she had known them lol
Whoever came up with the Raven Paradox obviously never saw an albino raven, or possibly hadn't even heard of albinism.
3:48 This one falls apart if you think about it practically. People are too selfish and self-centered to focus on someone else and act accordingly at all times. At some point the real you is going to come out. And at some point it’s going to happen to both parties
I like The Grandfather Paradox
*to the tube of 9 to 5*
Listin' 25
Just FYI: Socrates was not Plato's student. It was vice-versa.
Paradox: Kildaire and Welby
25. this isn't paradox it's a logical fallacy. It relies on assumptions which is not causality, the only way the statement can be true is if there is only 1 person in the bar.
24. again not a paradox, but an example why statistics are manipulative and don't matter. interviewing just 1 person will give 100% of the results if you only interview that 1 person. it's more important to look at the actual numbers and ratios than the % itself.
23. the ship is no longer the ship once 50% is replaced and the new ship built from the old one is not the ship because it lost its structure and becomes a new ship.
22. this is not a paradox. it's a breakdown in communication. relying on understanding and acknowledgement is the bases for communication. if one side does not acknowledge the other or understand what was said it's a failure in communication.
21. not a paradox. it's based on chance. it's a gamble. you have no real way of knowing if you chose the better option or not. statistics are based on probability which they look at the history of chance and since a majority of time choosing to switch has gained the better option they say it's better when it really has no difference at all.
20. statistically its 23 people, but if you are born on February 29th in a leap year that number jumps to 242. the number will increase with lower population and decrease with a rise in the population.
19. another logical fallacy. it's not age but our experience and memories. people tend to be more happy and content in old age because they have accomplishments and things they did that they can reflect upon. it's why prisoners who spent most their lives in prison won't be as happy as someone who toured the world, got married, had kids, and built something themselves by hand. Age isn't the factor but the actions taken as they developed.
18. FOMO is not a paradox it has no contradictory ideals that cancel itself out and its only a thing for extroverts. Introverts experience something completely different. they feel relieved at the idea of missing out on things but they desire to socialize giving them a sort of strange fear of being alone. They don't care about the activity they just want people to think about them and spend time with them, but most times they prefer to stay in and be with someone as home is more comfortable and less stressful.
17. paradox of happiness isn't about the chasing and failing to achieve happiness its about the fact that a person doesn't really know what it will take to make them happy so they listen to what others think happiness is and strive for that. it's more of a lack of self awareness and confusion.
16. same as 23, it has no difference if you switch or not your choice is based on a gamble an while your odds went from 1 in 3 down to 1 in 2 making it a higher probability you will win, it still a 50/50 choice and switching won't matter no matter what statistics tell you.
15. not a paradox. it's more of a measure of cognitive abilities. lower concentration task can be done simultaneously without issue. the less brain activity it takes to complete something the easier it is to do with other task. splitting your focus doesn't matter if the task itself takes almost no focus to complete. while you shouldn't be trying to do brain surgery and disarm a bomb at the same time, it's quite possible to go for a run while listening to a podcast and walk your dog at the same time.
14. no paradox here either. the horn has no real structure thus it has no surface to speak of.
13. if the guard knocks on his door every day but does not hang him then he will be surprised when the hanging actually happens. the fact that the knock occurs ONLY when he is to be hanged is why this is a paradox. if you are signaled then it's no longer a surprise. the day has nothing to do with it. even if he waits until Friday it can be late that day or right when the day rolls over and still be a surprise because he doesn't know exactly WHEN on that day he will be hung.
12. another logical fallacy based on social interactions. some people have 0 friends some have over 1000. if a person with just 1 friend and that friend has 3 friends and introduces that 1 friend to the other 2 and they all become friends then that friend that introduced them has the same number as the friend that only had 1 to start. there are also "levels" of friendship that range from a casual acquaintance to someone who is closer than family. A friend from work or school can be someone that you just hang out with while you are at work or school and when you change jobs or graduate never see them again. then there can be childhood friends you grew away from that you meet up with again and become life buddies with. Also there are "online" friends that you do things with in the digital world but never meet in real life. it's not quantity but quality in this case. very few people have a ride or die friend that would help them hide a body and more than likely you'll never get more than can be counted on a hand.
11. there is aspects of our lives we can control. when a person tries to control everything it's an overreach of their capabilities. HOWEVER tools are in place to help people to do just that. the more wealth an influence a person has the more control they have over a situation. barring things like nature and chaos theory and focusing on social and economic situations a person can theoretically have complete control if they have enough power, money, and fame.
10. the cat should always assumed to be dead. why? because the cat is not immortal and in time will eventually end up dead as a final result. if the result is always going to end up in death as the final product given a period of time the burden of proof is to test to see if it's alive. same goes for a piece of ice melting in warm climate or if a fire remains burning. the result at the end should always be assumed as what is reality.
9. just like 17 this has more to do with cognitive ability than it does options. if a person already has an idea of what choices they wanted to make they can make instant informed decisions no matter how many options are presented. its only when a person doesn't know what they desire and are presented with a great deal of options do they get overwhelmed. in many cases this is because they try to weigh all of the options at once to make a decision quickly and struggle with the number of options. some can do this without struggle while others can struggle with just 3 options. it's more ability and quick thinking based on knowledge and experience.
8. not at all. the key is immersion. people like to put themselves in the story and identify as the character they watch or build a relationship with those characters. If the person builds a barrier between themselves and the characters then what happens becomes unrelatable and we wouldn't care if the "good guys" won or lost. We don't perceive them to be real, we use them as an escape from our reality imagining what it would be like to live in their world and do the things that they do. the emotions we feel from what happens in the story is the emotions we feel from seeing those things happen to us or the people we care about.
7. not a paradox at all, this is simple math and physics. think of a tightly packed ball of tin foil. you can peel layer of it and ball it up loosely and make several other balls the same size.
6. this is the idea you should always be exploring new things and keeping an open mind. you can't find what you didn't know you were looking for because you didn't know it exist but if you are always looking for everything statistically you will find it given enough time.
5. another logical fallacy. your observations are not what makes facts. you can only theorize based on observations which change each time new or different information is added. all Chevys are vehicles but not all vehicles are Chevys.
4. this is a lack of perception, time, and space. it has nothing to do with a paradox. people that came up with this can't perceive the idea of distance, speed, or time. they make assumptions like the turtle is always moving at the same distance and speed as the person and that the number of steps never decrease because the rest stays constant. it's like the flat earthers that can't see the curve so they assume there is no globe. its a perception disorder not a failure of logic.
3. it's a 50/50 result for each day. but it ends when 1 result of that chance is achieved. this means that its a 1 in 3 chance since the 2nd result will continue to the next day. there is 2 chances it continues and 1 chance it ends giving it 3 chances. it's another based on a gamble and the probability doesn't determine the number of chances only the results.
2. a logical fallacy again. the reason to leave may not be based on the fear of death. if a person wants to leave for a different reason based on something illogical it can still prove the persons mental instability. a fear of death also doesn't guarantee a rational state of mind. a better catch 22 would be like the old "make more money" scam society places on others. you want to make more money so you need a better job, to get a better job you need a good education, to get that education... you need more money. its a circular trap that relies on the very thing you need in order to get what it takes to get the thing you want.
1. pull him into the water. if he is not pushed then it was a lie.
wording is very important to determine if something is a paradox or not.
25. It isn’t a logical fallacy. A statement can be true or false. The only fallacy is assuming it must be true.
24. It is a veridical paradox: something violates one’s intuition, but is true.
23. The ship is no longer the “same” ship if one part is changed. It is, say, 99% the same and 1%1. If some logic allows you to use binary logic and call absolutely the same, then it applies to each change of a single part. Even after they all are replaced. There is no justification for your arbitrary 50%.
22. It is not a breakdown in communication. It’s a non sequitur. The conclusion that there is an endless loop denies that a commonality can be reached.
21. The apparent contradiction is not based on chance. It’s a misunderstanding about how probability works.
20. No idea where you get 242. It’s wrong. The "magic number" is between the one for 365 days and 366.
16. Nothing like 23. It can be demonstrated with experiment. Going into the game with the intent to switch improves your chances to 2/3. It is 1/3 if you intend to stay. This is another veridical paradox, since people who do not understand conditional probability think your chances are 1/2 either way.
14. Veridical Paradox. It is a thought problem.
13. Completely wrong. Knocking has nothing to do with it. The issue is that the judge made a condition about an event, whose truth cannot be established until after the event has happened but can only be evaluated before.
10. Very misguided. A better example is if I shake an opaque box with a coin inside it. Does the coin end up showing Heads or Tails? Now, say a million people do this with a million boxes. How many are Heads, and how many are Tails? The principle in quantum mechanics says, essentially, that a single non-observed coin functions as the average of the million.
7. It is an incorrect application of mathematics to physics, and nothing like your tin foil example. It assumes there is no conservation of mass. Mathematics can divide an infinite set into two sets of the same “size” (really, “cardinality”). For example, the Natural Numbers can be divided into the Odd Numbers and the Even Numbers. But that assumes there is no property subject to a conservation law associated with them to make that "size" comparison.
5. He didn’t present the paradox well. And it truly is only a paradox in the minds of philosophers. It's about how you use the information "not a vehicle."
4. Completely wrong. Zeno simply failed to recognize that the infinite sequence 1/2+1/4+1/8+… converges to 1. And that it applies to both time and distance in his problem. That is, that saying you can never reach point X, is the same as saying there is a time T that can never be reached.
3. Wrong. It can’t “end” because of the amnesia drug.
2. You don’t understand the “paradox.” The person wants to use a rule to leave. The use of the rule requires that the rule does not apply.
1. Making a statement does not guarantee that the truth of the statement can be determined.
I have the same Birthday as Paul O'Neill from the NY Yankees.
This was the basis of the 1970s game show "Let's Make A Deal"!!!
Mike list 25 paradox
22 should have been the catch 22 -_-
Meno Paradox....should be called Bono's Paradox....U2 song, I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For. 🎶😁
Did you mean Plato and his student Aristotel in the last part. Because Socrates was a teacher of Plato.
I feel like you could have spent a little more time on pretty much all 25. Especially Zeno’s paradox. That makes absolutely no sense at all 🤦♂️
I've actually met like 4 or 5 people who have the same birthday as me
Write a shopping list if you are going shopping, that's how you avoid the Information Overload Paradox, in a supermarket. ❤
Paradoxically, most of these are not paradoxes at all..