Philosophy & Mind prompts

10 prompts for philosophy & mind, from the Advanced shelf of the Secure AI library. Each one is written to be sent as it is or filled in — the bracketed parts are where your own situation goes.

• Explain the Hard Problem of ConsciousnessWhy explaining the brain's wiring doesn't explain why anyone's home.
• Walk Me Through Gödel's Incompleteness TheoremsA true statement, unprovable from within its own system. Math's floor has a hole in it.
• Explain Free Will vs. Determinism, Steelmanning Both SidesThe strongest version of each side, before anyone tries to split the difference.
• Explain What It Would Mean If We're Living in a Simulation, SeriouslyThe actual argument, not the movie — and what would and wouldn't change if it were true.
• Explain the Ship of Theseus and Why It's Not Just a Fun PuzzleNot just a riddle about a boat — it's actually asking whether you're still you.
• Why the Hard Problem Is HardThen the strongest case that the problem is a confusion.
• What Makes Me the Same Person?Each account run against the case built to break it.
• Is Compatibilism a Dodge?The change-the-subject objection, taken seriously.
• How Can a Thought Be About Something?Where each account still smuggles aboutness in.
• Are Moral Facts Real?Focused on the two problems that actually decide it.

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