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It's a podcast where two brothers answer your questions, give you these advice and bring you all the weeks news from both Mars and AFC Wimbledon. John, did you know that a bunch of horses got elected to, are about to get elected to Congress? I didn't know that. And it's a real problem because the only thing they can say is nay.
Actually, that suits Congress pretty well. So we need to get out there and vote and make sure it's not just horses in there. So it's not going to get anything done. It was a joke about voting, but do vote tomorrow as you're listening to this as Election Day in the United States.
And if you are a US young who is eligible to vote, head over to your polling place and say I'd like one of them ballots. I'm on the ballots. Cast it. I'm not here to tell you tomorrow.
Tomorrow is the day. If you listen to this the day it comes out. If you listen to it the day after today is the day, if you listen to it Wednesday, you missed your chance. I'm not here to tell you how to vote.
But if you want to tell you to vote, if you want to make my personal life easier, if you could vote for school board candidates who aren't trying to ban my book looking for Alaska, that would be a huge, I would just be a huge solid for me that you could do for me personally. So look up your school board candidates and notice whether they actively celebrate the banning of books on their website. And if they do, you know, again, I'm not going to tell you how to vote, but I will tell you what would be helpful for me personally. And if you want to know more about your voting situation, it's very easy to look up your registration status, whether you can register same day, where you're polling places, all this is much easier to find than when I was maybe your age when I was first voting anyway.
And you had to like get a piece of mail to tell you where to go. No, it's the future. It's now and it's much, it's much easier. And so we should all be doing that thing.
John, this is unrelated to that previous conversation for a reason I'm not necessarily going to get into. I went to Tumblr recently to see sort of like what the vibe was there. Maybe I might be interested in spending time on a different social media platform than the ones that I spend most of my time on that I don't know is healthy for me. Oh, yeah, no, I can tell you from experience that Tumblr is super good.
Yeah, it's super healthy. So good. It's been a while since I checked it out. What I want to say, I went to Tumblr.com, I opened it up and it was like, here's a bunch of things for you.
Here's a bunch of information, things you might be interested in. And one of them was, do you want to send your friends, crabs? What? You can send crabs to your friends for $2.99.
At Tumblr? Which is our idea. They still crab you list, crab you list, crab you list, the world's hit crab picture sharing web service. Yeah, yeah, you can say it's a limited edition crab, Tumblr dashboard crabs.
You can also send your friend to Tumblr horse friend and get busy scooping or get busy dying. I don't know what that means. It seems like a lot. Well, Hank, I don't know how to say this exactly, but you going back onto Tumblr and I just looked, just went to Tumblr.com for the first time in some years.
And you having posted to Tumblr like six times in the last three days is the single biggest betrayal of my love and trust. Of the whole brotherhood? Essentially of the whole brotherhood. Tumblr is made of many people.
Well, Hank, I'm glad that you are seeking out alternative social media addictions because that seems like a really, it seems like a great call. That's the right thing to do. Yeah, it's the right thing to do. It's better to replace than to just touch grass.
Before I have to think for one more second about Tumblr, let's answer this question from Sarah who writes, John and Hank, my seven year old son, John Henry, asked where the paper goes when you cut it with a pair of scissors, specifically the part that was connected to what used to be one piece of paper that is now to paper dust. I'm not sure if he means this on the atomic level, but he's sure something strange is happening. What do you do about to Sarah? So when you cut a piece of paper, Hank, in half, and you add the remaining mass of the two sheets of paper, it is a little less.
Is it? It's got to be. Are you sure? Did you read that on the internet?
Hey, let's do some standard Dear Hank and John lateral thinking to analyze this issue. Okay. Well, yeah. So here's what I think.
I think it is going to be a little less. It has to be a little less. Wait, can we try the lateral thinking thing first? I think it's going to be a little less.
What's that? That's where you imagine an analog situation and you try to figure it out from there whether part of the piece of paper dissipation. So if I cut down a tree, there's definitely sawdust. I know that.
Right. Great example of lateral thinking. If I cut a car in half, definitely some pieces are no longer in either half of the car. There's car dust.
So you don't think when I'm in this situation, I like to imagine a much larger example to see how the physics would play out there. So let's imagine a piece of paper the size of the earth. If you cut that piece of paper in half, okay, are you pictured it with me? Yeah, it's just the earth is the earth is a piece of paper.
The earth is flat as indeed it always has been. And it is we live on it's surface and you cut it in half. Okay. Yep.
There's going to be, I think, some star dust, some floaty floaties. Some floaty floaties. I think if you cut earth as a piece of paper enough times that it would actually form rings around the center of gravity, which in this case is a piece of paper. Well, I think that the rings would, of course, have to be, it would be a ring.
It would be like a box. Great point. It would be a rectangle. Exactly.
Because if it's a ring, then that would imply a spherical planet, which is clearly not what's happening. So I'm saying that if you cut a piece of paper enough times, it would disappear. I think you are probably wrong. What?
Maybe not. So like, there's, I don't know. I guess you're right. Like some atoms probably stick to the scissors somehow.
But I think that what's happening is so like when you're chainsawing a tree, you grab an individual, bits of that tree and shove it out. That's what chainsawing is. I have to leave the microphone for a moment. So Hank's going to continue monologuing, but I have to look for a pair of scissors.
But if I'm cutting, I'm cutting the paper. I think that the paper, it's like glass. There it is. When you break up, when you just crack a piece of glass, there's not some glass dust that shoots up into the air.
It's just all the glass stays on one side or the other side. It's like glass. Hold on. I'm coming back.
I strongly disagree, but I still haven't found any scissors. Hold on. Where's my scissors? I have scissors too.
Oh, I just have a knife. I have a razor. I'm going to do my best to not cut myself right now. Can I cut this piece of paper?
There's dust, John. There's dust. Hold on. I don't need your scissors.
I got them. I got it. There's dust. You're right.
It's also just an excellent ASMR experience going on over here. Oh my God. That was such a journey. I'm back.
Oh, okay. There's dust. Hold on a second. Did you find scissors?
I found scissors. There's visible dust. So not only are we wrong about the... Not only were you wrong about the...
Oh, that's so loud. Not only... Oh, God. Please tell.
Oh, no. What's the opposite of ASMR? What's an ASMR for where it just makes your life worse in everywhere? Sorry, I'm a little out of breath.
It was a real run to get scissors. There's definitely dust. But the other thing that's happening. Maybe if my knife were sharper, it wouldn't have dust though.
So there's definitely dust. But the other thing I would like to observe, Hank, is that I think even when you split glass in half, there is a remnant. I think there is something... I think there is glass dust or sand, as you might call it, that isn't in either pane of glass if you split them in half.
But this is definitely creating dust. Now, if you had a perfectly sharp edge, I'm not sure if it would. And so the other thing is that I just... Okay, so when I did it with paper, it created dust.
But when I did it with a note card, like something that's thicker, like almost like poster board, there is no visible dust. Not even on the blade of the scissors. Oh. So now I'm rethinking it.
We don't have a good answer for you. Look, I kind of agree with John that like, atoms are very small and they're weird. So if you have weird small atoms, when you're cutting something, you have to be cutting. Like, if you're...
Yeah, I don't want to go too deep into this, Hank, but like if you're cutting something, there has to be something in the cut that is lost. Oh, does there? That's the question. I think in...
I think inherently... I don't think so. I don't think you can separate two things without there being something lost, right? Hey, did we just put a Nobel Prize for physics?
Well, we may have won a Nobel Prize for peace, John, because really what we're talking about is people, aren't we? There's no way that we're talking about paper right now. When you say something like, you can't separate two things without something being lost. We're not talking about paper anymore.
No. No, we're talking about diplomacy. We're talking about love. We're talking about Nobel Peace Prize stuff, Hank.
And you know what the thing that is lost is between two people? It's got to be spit or snot or something? Something like that. It's definitely microbiota.
Microbiotic. I think there is something lost when you cut a piece of paper. And I think there is something lost when you separate any two things. But now I'm thinking, well, if you separated two atoms, there would be nothing lost, right?
And so maybe there isn't. Okay, but if you separated two atoms, there would be nothing lost. But we're talking about a huge collection of atoms where a very small amount of stuff could fall off and it could be invisible. The thing is I'm not entirely sure how paper even works now that we're talking about it, because is it just a bunch of strands of cellulose stuck together?
Is it Vanderwalls forces or hydrogen bonds or covalent? But what is it that's doing the sticking of all the paper together? And what I'm actually cutting. Because I think that the deeper point, I'm holding up this piece of paper that I've cut like 20 times, is that there is now nothing between what was once two pieces of paper.
But the question is, did you have to remove something in order for there to be that nothing there? I don't think so. I think that you can introduce nothing without removing anything. I don't exactly understand what you just said.
You can add nothing without removing something. So you're saying you can add nothing without removing something. So you can turn one piece of paper into two pieces of paper where you don't add anything. We are putting nothing between two pieces of the paper.
I'm not sure that that's correct. I'm not sure that we are. But you're not taking anything away from me, we added nothing. Right.
But functionally, okay, yes, maybe that's true in a vacuum. But functionally, when you cut an actual piece of paper with actual scissors, my argument is that there must be some kind of invisible dust that is involved in that cutting, right? No, well, I mean, there doesn't have to be. There might be, and it seems like there is based on our practical experiments.
But I don't think that there has to be. I think that you can add nothing to something and have the same amount of something that is now two things instead of one. Okay. You've introduced a gap between the thing, but the gap exists, but you didn't have to take anything out to make the gap.
You just added nothing. Okay. Now, I realize that we should move on from this question, but I would like to propose an additional level of lateral thinking now that we're a little further along in our investigations. Give me a lateral example of something that you add nothing to it, and then it's two somethings, but they are the combined size of the same previous something.
I'm going to go ahead and say literally anything. No. Yeah, because when you say, so the question isn't- Well, first off, I don't agree with literally anything, because if you did that to my body, you would not have- No. No.
Okay. No, not two. Yeah. But some finite number of individual parts.
So if we're saying that there's a bunch of dust that gets removed from the paper when we cut it, there is now space between not two pieces of paper, but many pieces of paper. So what we're only saying is there's either two, there's definitely two, but there might be more than two pieces of paper, and some of the pieces of paper are so small that we can't see. There's a finite number of pieces of paper. So in this example- With nothing between them.
With like air between them now. Right. So you can really only play this anything that's not living, because if you split a living thing in half, you're not going to have two things. Well, there's some animals where that works that way, but yeah.
That's true. Okay. Dang it. If you do it to a stenter, then you're just like, wow, look it off like a knock at 18 stenters.
With stuff between them. So who knows, John? Who knows? It reminds me of a great artwork by Gordon Metacarck where he split a house in half and makes me wonder if anything was lost, or if indeed something instead was gained.
This next question comes from Chloe who writes Dear John and Hank, did silent letters used to not be silent? Thanks, Chloe. Gotta be, gotta be, gotta be. No other reason why.
We had can I fees? You think we had can I fees? Or can I? You think?
Okay. So Hank, I want to ask you a very serious question. When in the history of the English language, do you think that people got stabbed with canives? Oh wait, excuse me.
When in the history of the English language precisely, do you think people got stabbed with canives? I was wondering if we were gonna pick up on that. That's, I'm gonna say the 1400s and I'm gonna say they didn't like it just as much as they did now, but it was a little more fun. I mean, there's some words with silent letters that didn't exist until recently, so obviously they were never pronounced.
But they're based on words that used to exist. You don't make nobody make up words from scratch. Well, a little bit sometimes. Yeah, sometimes.
But I know what you mean. But I mean, there are a lot of words that are relatively recent, including like light, L-I-G-H-T. No, light's not recent. Yeah, it is.
That sounds very old. No, we did. In English, there was no word for light until the 17th century. The idea didn't exist.
But in German it was licked and in Dutch it was licked. And so we were like licked. And then we were like licked. It says it right here.
No. Hank, there was no word for the idea of light. There was a word for day, but there was no word for light. Like what comes from the sun or comes from an artificial light source until the 18th century.
The 18th century? Yes. The idea of light did not exist until the 18th century. Wow, that's cool.
Oh my God, can I convince him of anything? Yes. I can convince him of anything. That.
I am the greatest. I was one click away. One click away. I mean, he looked at a Netabology dictionary and he was like it says that it was a word in Dutch and I still tricked him.
Yeah, I'm looking at the authoritative one, but I got there. That the idea of life is from Proto Indo-European. It's all as hell. Of course it's all.
And it's like it's literally the first thing we didn't have a name for. For something. It was the second word after me. That's not true.
Anyway, I think that as far as I can tell from what I've looked up and I've looked up, you know, because it's always a fun thing to do. That usually there was some reason why there was the extra letters and then we just lost them. And so there used to be like thruff and then we were just like, ah, brews easier than that. Yeah, I don't know that that's but for all the like, rights and sites and nights and all those and flights, those all come from other languages where they are semi pronounced.
I mean, they don't sound pronounced to me, but then when I speak German, people are always like, excuse me. Yeah, it's all the times when you speak German. They're every time that I was in Germany with Sarah and we went to, you know, like a convenience kiosk late one night and Sarah was like, please God, whatever you do, just speak English. Please, please, please just speak English.
It'll be fine. And I was like, I am going to order this right in German and she was like, please God don't. And I walked up to the person and I said, I'm right. Bitter.
And Sarah just, Sarah just, I mean, I thought she was going to just the ground was going to swallow her up. But I speak German. Hank, I can say I'm sprite. Bitter.
Yeah, you can. I can also say the title of the fault in our start. She's at least I need to write that's a lot. That's a lot of German words.
Duh. Is that how they say yes? There's there's there's people listening who speak German and I don't know how they're feeling about that. What do they say for?
Yes. What's their word? It's not that. Well, they say what is yes in German?
This is that it's Jowol, which seems definitely wrong. It's yeah. It's yeah. Wait, yeah.
Of all it's yeah. Yeah. Sorry. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Yeah.
Yeah. I speak German. Yeah. Sprock and see Deutsche as they say on off the Deutsche.
Good. Yeah. Don't. Don't.
Don't. Don't. Don't. There it is.
This is a question comes from Anna who we're going to move on. We got to do a steer. I get John. Why do you why do you smell smells when you inhale but not when you exhale?
Where does the smell go? Ooh. Where does the smell go? All right.
I thought I had to answer this question, but now that I'm looking at it a little deeper, I am more confused. So you definitely do smell on the way out and on the way in. You can do both. And in fact, there's names for both of these things in the way when breathing in, it's called orthonasal olfaction and when you breathe out, it's called retronasal and fat.
Elfaction and retronasal infection is how you can taste when you're eating things that are not sweet, sour, bitter, and the other one. Umami or maybe there's another salty. That's there. They all are about them all.
And but yeah, all those other tastes where it's like, you know, all the complexities of flavor is you are breathing out and the smell is coming from your mouth, which is wild to think. And you can. Oh, so when you read out the smell is coming from your mouth. Yeah.
Okay. My relationship with I doctor pepper is in real jeopardy, but I was just trying to smell an exhale in the diet. Doctor pepper can't announcement anything when I exhale and I remember has a very distinct odor. Yeah.
And so but what what I don't know and what is an amazing fact is when I so theoretically I breathe in a big bowl on the essay and on the way and I'm like, that smells like good food. Yeah. But then what where do the smell compounds go? Where does that mean that same air out?
I'm reading that same air out. Yeah. I broke blow through my nose. I don't smell it.
Does it all get like trapped somewhere? Does it get trapped in the way in when I smell it? Do I capture all of the no way? I don't like being in a body.
I don't like it. This isn't what I would pick. I wouldn't have picked this way. If you could have like let me design, you know how in like Dungeons and Dragons, you can decide whether you want to be an elf or a dwarf or whatever.
If you let me pick, I would not have picked being in a body that has all this sensation. Yeah. I think I would have gone with and let me know if this is a little bit too much, but I think I would have gone with like a one dimensional line, like just a line that you couldn't interact with, but could sense. And so I could like tell you what I see.
I could like sneak around. This would be a good D&D character, but I can't be hurt. I can't. I can't.
I don't. There's no entropy. I'm I am just a line. Don't you need a second dimension in order to sneak around?
I like the idea. No. Why? I mean, I did I did some way of moving through space.
Yeah. So I am one dimensional, but I moved through three dimensional space just like we are three dimensional, but we moved through four dimensional space. Is there a chance that there's something that's one dimensional moving through three dimensional space that I don't know about? Like we'd see it.
Would we? But I don't know. I can't see one dimensional space. It was always sort of like on if it was on edge, which is what you tried to do.
If you were me, a one dimensional being, you try to always be on edge to the thing that's looking at you so that you can't see it. But then when you're sideways, when you're perpendicular, then they'd be like, Oh, line, I see it quick. We're being spied upon. Wait, would it look like a line or would it look like a whole plane?
It would look like a line to a dimensional would be a plane. Wait, but then how is it visible? If it's a line, how thin is it? It's infinitely thin in every direction, right?
That's great. I'm invisible. Now I'm a great spy. I'm the best.
I'm the best. Wait, I'm sorry. I'm really bad at geometry. I to be honest with you, Hank, I didn't I didn't do well in geometry.
Well, I don't know either. Obviously. I'm asking you, huh? If you are a line, aren't you always on edge?
Like the only reason I can see a line that I plot on a graphing calculator is because I'm imagining a world that looks like that world, right? Like, I don't think I can see a line. That's a true line. That's truly a one dimensional space.
I think you can see a plane. I think you can see a plane. Yeah, I can't see a one dimensional line. So yeah, maybe we're constantly surrounded by essentially one dimensional lines.
We're like, Oh my God, I don't believe people have to poop all the time. Oh God. I don't want to be surrounded by sentient one dimensional lines. I would like somebody to tell me why I can't be surrounded by sentient one dimensional lines, please.
Well, based on how we understand how consciousness works, it would be tricky. Yeah, right. We could be surrounded by one dimensional lines that aren't thinking, which is maybe even worse. But then that makes me think like, am I really thinking or am I just, am I just much more complicated in the way in the story I tell myself about my pre determined thoughts and actions?
I don't know if free will exists, John. But I feel like it does. I know that it doesn't exist to a large extent because I know I certainly know that I oftentimes have no idea how I got on to Twitter.com. Well, no, but I also think like sometimes you don't get to choose what you think about, even though you are a sensibly the captain of this free will will ship.
I wrote a whole novel about this. I thought very, very hard about it for about six years. I woke up in the morning thinking about it and went to bed at night thinking about it and because like one of the like fundamental problems of free will for me is that it's very obvious that we don't have free will in certain moments because if you have a compound fracture in your arm, it's very difficult. It's difficult to not think about it, right?
If you're in a lot of pain, you can't think like, or at least when I'm in a lot of pain, the way that I think is to some extent, circumscribed by that pain. And that's not just true for pain, right? It's also true for lots of other things when you're massively falling in love the way that you think is circumscribed by that experience. And so some stuff that we don't choose shapes our thoughts all the time.
The question is whether all of our thoughts are entirely shaped by stuff we don't choose, which in the end I wiggled out of. That was my solution when I was writing turtles all the way down. Yeah, I think that's mostly that's mostly what the philosophers have done about it too. Yeah, no, that's yeah, I took a cue from them.
Yeah, somebody in college once said, do you think free will exists or not? Or do you think that free will is built into the larger system of everything being inevitable? And I was like, that last one sounds like a real weasel. That sounds like a big old cop out here.
Not you know, that's not a thing. That's just a way to say that free will doesn't exist without admitting that it doesn't exist. I feel I think that what how I feel is important for philosophical conversations, which I know is different from how many people approach these questions, but I feel like I make choices. And I feel like my ability to feel that way is important for me to be able to make the choices that whether or not they are inevitable are the ones I want to feel like I'm making.
And so I feel free will and I'm sure that that really is going to work for Kierkegaard or whatever. I don't even know if Kierkegaard talked about free will, but like they all do. Some of them got rid of it pretty quickly, but they all they all had to deal with it. At least a little.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So obviously this is a very serious episode of podcast or something.
I don't know what's going on with Hank and me, but for a long time. I when I was in high school, a teacher told me about this debate in the middle ages about how many angels could fit on the head of a pin and all of these really smart, really well read European theologians devoting themselves to how many angels can fit on the head of a pen, which turns out to just not be a very interesting question. It's like the wrong question. And so it's a very important question if you need to know how many angels can fit on the head of a pen or if knowing how many angels can fit on the head of a pin would shape your life in a deep and profound way.
Right. For me, I don't think that I need to know the answer to free will in any kind of like cosmic sense, just as I don't need to know how many angels can fit on the head of a pin in order to live my life. Well, now if I knew in a cosmic sense that everything was predetermined, it still wouldn't change what you're talking about, Hank, which is the experienced reality of all be it limited choice. Yeah.
Well, and this just sort of gets to the whole question of what consciousness is and like what is the spot like that I shine upon the world as it exists around me, which is something that I have also very much not got done. I'm not sure what I heard about angels on the head of a pin at first. And they were they dancing with something about them dancing on the head of a pen. I wasn't sure which side of the pin was the head if it was the pointy part or the flat part.
You thought there were all these little angels getting impaled on the party part of the thing. If they're small enough, they could fit on the head of the book bust out of my crystal. You'll find that that's actually not like infinitely pointy. It's blunt eventually like there are it's just like a dome at the tip.
It's just very small. So there you could have an angel party on that part too. And then there's all kinds of different pins. I was imagining the kind of pin that had a little like a embroidery pin that has the little like plastic red ball at the top.
So you can grab on to it, which is a much bigger head than the pins that I'm sure they were talking about them. How many what kinds of pins do they have where they always with their standard of pain in size? It seems seems very improbable considering they didn't even have interchangeable parts back then. This reminds me of something important, which is that if you could create a pin with an infinitely sharp edge, could you cut a piece of paper such that it is fully two cells that are precisely when added together the size of the previous self.
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