• MeatsOfRage@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Nah, you can always rely on the Hilbert Hotel for a good night’s rest. Your room is down the hall, just keep walking, you’ll find it.

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      2 months ago

      Not op, no idea either. Best I can make of it is some sort of surrealist fifth level multi layered reference to several memes at once? The only one I know is the trolley problem one

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        If we are now considering philosophical intellectual exercises to be memes then this description is accurate.

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        The grand hilbert hotel is a metaphor about infinity. If a hotel has an infinite number of rooms, it will have enough room for him. If every room is full, they can all still move up by one room number. Infinity means you can always shift everyone up by 1 room number.

        The ship of theseus is a philosophical question about whether it’s still the same ship after having every board and nail in it replaced over centuries of repairs gradually replacing all of its parts.

        Asking if Sisyphus is happy is a reference to a famous Albert Camus (French absurdist philosopher) quote “One must imagine Sisyphus happy”

    • Clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works
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      It’s meaningless and unfunny.

      Sysiphus is cursed to forever till a boulder uphill.

      The Hilbert Hotel is a philosophical math idea. It has an infinite number of rooms, all full. If you another person wants a room, everyone with a room moves over one. Room 1 moves into room 2, etc. Room 1 is now empty for the new person, and the hotel again has an infinite number of rooms, all full. Just one larger infinite than before.

      The Ship of Theseus is a Greek story from Plutarch’s Lives about a ship whose parts get replaced as they wear out. The question is - is it the same ship if it has none of the same parts?