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The Wikipedia challenge
In this challenge, you should choose a random word or topic that could be an entry in the English version of Wikipedia. Then you should enter that into the Wikipedia search bar. In the page you get to you should click on the first link in the actual article. If the link is to a page you have already followed, use the next link instead. Count how many pages you need to traverse before you get to the article on Philosophy.
Link to Wikipedia
I started with “rose”. This is my “travel”.
- Rose
- Perennial
- Plant
- Eukaryote
- Domain (biology)
- Biology
- Life
- Matter
- Classical physics
- Physics
- Natural science
- Branches of science
- Science
- Scientific method
- Empirical evidence
- Proposition
- Philosophy of language
- Analytic philosophy
- Contemporary philosophy
- Western philosophy
That required 20 clicks. Let us try something different. Say hockey.
- Hockey
- Bladed
- Ice Skates
- Ice
- Water
- Inorganic compound
- Chemistry
- Matter
… and then we are back to the same sequence of pages as above.
In mathematics, we say that the word Philosophy is an attractor.
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