Consider the following scenario: According to legend, Theseus, the mythical Greek founder-king of Athens, rescued the children of Athens from King Minos after slaying the minotaur and then escaped onto a ship going to Delos. Each year, the Athenians commemorated this victory by performing repairs on the ship and taking

Consider the following scenario: Mary is a neuroscientist who lives in a black and white room and has only ever experienced the world in black and white. As an expert in color vision and perception, she knows everything about its physics and biology, including how light of different wavelengths stimulate

This is the second post on the Fermi paradox. Check out the first one here. Quick recap: the Fermi paradox is a contradiction between the high probability of advanced extraterrestrial life existing and the lack of any definitive proof of its existence. There have been many attempts to explain the

Humans have been fascinated by the possibility of extraterrestrial life for millennia. Our discussions about aliens range from outlandish conspiracy theories to genuinely thought-provoking puzzles like the Fermi Paradox. The Fermi paradox is a contradiction between the high probability of advanced extraterrestrial life existing and the lack of any definitive