(1) The Dawood Illusion
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Admit it -- the line at the top looks longer to you. Yet scientists assure us they are exactly the same length! (The illusion is produced by the relative happiness of the adjoining hamsters.)
(2) Turing Test
Q: Is there a God?
A: No.
Q: Is there any basis for morality?
A: No.
Q: Is consciousness real?
A: No.
Q: Do we have Free Will?
A: No.
Q: Am I, mm, speaking to a robot?
A: …. No.
[Note: All the responses were false except the last. The responder was in fact not a robot, but a neuroscientist. They can be hard to tell apart.]
(3) Questions that stumped the experts, knocked over the left-field fence by Dr. J.
(3) Questions that stumped the experts, knocked over the left-field fence by Dr. J.
Q: What time is it on the sun?
A: Five o’clock.
Q: What color is God?
A: Blue.
Q: Why don’t atoms have individual names?
A: Some do, some don’t.
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