Amy farrah fowler

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I will try to make a short example for a bigger thought pattern: imagine nihilism combined with the donkey paradox.

If you figure that existence is meaningless, in a sense that nothing has inherently any value, and the only way to give something subjective meaning is by choosing for it to have meaning, yet since every possibility to choose is equally meaningless you suddenly can't set yourself to choose any direction.

Like the donkey that can't choose if it wants to squelch it's thirst first or eat the hay and then starves to death, you are stuck in an endless void of not making any sensible choice for either "decision tree" to give anything meaning, and in such deteriorate into a mere observer, someone that does not participate in life and can do nothing else than be.

Trying to escape this would be meaningless, as we stated before one would find no value in trying to escape it, the baseline would not change.

Having come to such a conclusion would make it difficult if not impropable for one to get out of again, choice of improving perspective would be futile. One would have "thought" themselve into a figurative pigeon-hole.

This is just one example, there are (philosophical) thoughts that can possibly be harmful and permanently altering for a mind, like an abstract parasite that latches on and can't be removed, created by mere logic. And only a very specific set of information might help them out of this, which might be questionable if they ever find this 'key' in their lifetime, possibly being stuck with this thought-pattern till the end of their life (which in our example is even questionable if this person would even seek out such information).

Counter hypothesis:

Engaging with philosophy gives you a toolkit that can help you lead a worse and less meaningful life.

If you are thirsty, you need to drink!

I feel like this has to do with the accessability of information and the exponential growth of data that we have to digest on a daily basis in comparison to back then.

We got so used to not needing to know information, but instead knowing how and where to find his information, that our brain adjusted to outsource this need for storage.

I also noticed I got worse with this kind of information, I was a lot better at memorizing infos.

It was even worse with songs, you heard the end of a song you liked in the radio and never heard of it again and they didn't repeat the name. Then by some miracle you hear it two years later again and needed to write up the songname. Shazam was a godsend for stuff like this.

Now imagine having this problem before internet and smartphones, this bugged the shit out of you and maybe if you were lucky a friend knew who they were.

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