:date: 2011-10-25 10:03

.. index:: tech, podcasts, movies

Experiments
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In the section `Philosophy of OpenLearn <http://www.open.ac.uk/openlearn/history-the-arts/culture/philosophy>`__ I found a couple of interesting videos and articles. For a quick entry I can recommend the 60 second videos about thought experiments and paradoxes.

When it comes to `Achilles and the Tortoise <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achilles_and_the_tortoise#Achilles_and_the_tortoise>`__ there are some proposed solutions to that paradox. But you might also wanna check `Skeptiods episode about Zeno's <http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4267>`__ Paradoxes. There `Brian Dunning <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Dunning_(skeptic)>`__ explains the paradox and why it can't work. Really. It can't.

The probably best one is the one of `Diogenes the Cynic <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diogenes_the_Cynic>`__: According to `Simplicius <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplicius_of_Cilicia>`__ he responded nothing at all when  he heard Zeno's argument for the first time, but just stood up, walked a round and demonstrated that way, that the conclusion of Zeno therefore must have been wrong. Well, this is half of it. In order to fix a paradox you also have to prove the falsity of the argument wrong, not only the conclusion. But hey! As a starter ?