PROBLEMS IN PHILOSOPHY
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What is life? (vital force)
What is the point of life?
	42
What is space and time?
Who created us?
Are there 4 basic elements (or quintessential?)
turn lead into gold
how can there be action at a distance? ether?
Is mind diffeent than matter? (duality)
Is there free will or is the lot deterministic?
	is the future predetermined albeit uncomputable?
	is it all written in the stars?
Probability and induction
Logic and mathematics
Does the external world exist?
	idealism me arse
What happens after death?
Does God exist?
luck and success
Is everything built for a purpose?
Destiny? eh?
Survival of the fittest
How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?
What are feelings and does everything come in opposite pairs?
laughter and happiness
placebo effect
miracles
Can animals/computers have conscience?
	language
Is our head tabula rasa? (growth/education)
	"i know one thing for sure: that I know nothing"
The whole is more than the sum of its parts
	"even if you know everything about cars, it won't help you understand traffic jams"
Without god, how do we establish morality?
Democracy or aristocracy?
When does state power transcend individual freedom (oppression)
property is theft
How to ensure trust/dependability on others (rulers/businesses/friends)
	aka how to fend against liars, thieves and the rest of it
How to juggle fairness with (natural) inequality in society
	"The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal."
What is the point of Art (enriching artists excluded :)
Free market or socialism?
Is stock market a zero sum game?
What is money and inflation
Exponential growth is humanity's take being a virus to natural resources (pollution, rubbish)
The right to employment (luddites)
How do you bed any woman you fancy?

many of the physics questions went out of philosophy because they are now known more or less

history of philosophy shows wasted effort trying to reconcile facts with dogma (religion)

to do mathematics, you need pen, paper and a rubbish bin. To do philosophy you only need the first 2

http://skepdic.com/holbach.html