August 2024
Kantian Puzzle Box
Level 1 – Surface Web
CONSPIRACY
The Perpetual Peace Puzzle, then, is the puzzle of how we should account for the ostensible contradiction in Kant’s argument. … Some regard Kant as having made one argument about what is the case and another about what ought to be the case, which he did not discriminate as clearly as he might have done.
LINKS
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0191453716680128
1907 The 21 Grams Experiment
Level 2 – Bergie Web
MEDICINE
The 21 grams experiment refers to a scientific study published in 1907 by Duncan MacDougall, a physician from Haverhill, Massachusetts. MacDougall hypothesized that souls have physical weight, and attempted to measure the mass lost by a human when the soul departed the body. MacDougall attempted to measure the mass change of six patients at the moment of death. One of the six subjects lost three-fourths of an ounce (21.3 grams).
LINKS
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/21_grams_experiment