903: Extended Mind - Revision history

162.218.182.5: /* Explanation */ update: Philosophy currently leads to Philosophy 20 pages later

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‎Explanation: update: Philosophy currently leads to Philosophy 20 pages later

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Lettherebedarklight: /* Trivia */ add Category:Comics with a Spanish translation

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‎Trivia: add Category:Comics with a Spanish translation

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162.158.10.177 at 00:10, 13 April 2025

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Icandostuff: /* Explanation */ Munroe isn't infallable

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‎Explanation: Munroe isn't infallable

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 The title, {{w|Extended_mind_thesis|"Extended Mind"}}, refers to a theory proposed by philosophers Andy Clark and David Chalmers, which postulates that the mind not only includes what can be found in the skull, but also incorporates external things, like Wikipedia. Others have connected this sort of thing to the innate biological intelligence, or knowledge, but still consider it a different phenomenon under a label such as "{{w|Extelligence|''ex''telligence}}".
-The title text refers to an observed phenomenon that many of Wikipedia's first page links (excluding those in brackets) eventually lead to the {{w|Philosophy}} page, though he incorrectly states that this happens on all articles. This may be due to the fact that the first few links in any article tend to reference more general or abstract ideas, which eventually gravitate towards philosophy. This is only true for around 95% of Wikipedia pages: the rest end up in infinite loops, missing pages, or pages without links. As of 12:08 UTC on April 12, 2024, the Philosophy page leads into a loop containing the pages {{w|Existence}} and {{w|Reality}}.
+The title text refers to an observed phenomenon that many of Wikipedia's first page links (excluding those in brackets) eventually lead to the {{w|Philosophy}} page, though he incorrectly states that this happens on all articles. This may be due to the fact that the first few links in any article tend to reference more general or abstract ideas, which eventually gravitate towards philosophy. This is only true for around 95% of Wikipedia pages: the rest end up in infinite loops, missing pages, or pages without links. As of 6:37 PM UTC on 24 March 2026, Philosophy will loop back in on itself after 20 clicks.
 More info on this bizarre characteristic of the encyclopedia can be found {{w|Wikipedia:Getting to Philosophy|on their page about it}} or on [http://matpalm.com/blog/2011/08/13/wikipedia-philosophy/ this blog].

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 The title, {{w|Extended_mind_thesis|"Extended Mind"}}, refers to a theory proposed by philosophers Andy Clark and David Chalmers, which postulates that the mind not only includes what can be found in the skull, but also incorporates external things, like Wikipedia. Others have connected this sort of thing to the innate biological intelligence, or knowledge, but still consider it a different phenomenon under a label such as "{{w|Extelligence|''ex''telligence}}".
-The title text refers to an observed phenomenon that many of Wikipedia's page links eventually lead to the {{w|Philosophy}} page, though he incorrectly states that this happens on all articles. This may be due to the fact that the first few links in any article tend to reference more general or abstract ideas, which eventually gravitate towards philosophy. This is only true for around 95% of Wikipedia pages: the rest end up in infinite loops, missing pages, or pages without links. As of 12:08 UTC on April 12, 2024, the Philosophy page leads into a loop containing the pages {{w|Existence}} and {{w|Reality}}.
+The title text refers to an observed phenomenon that many of Wikipedia's first page links (excluding those in brackets) eventually lead to the {{w|Philosophy}} page, though he incorrectly states that this happens on all articles. This may be due to the fact that the first few links in any article tend to reference more general or abstract ideas, which eventually gravitate towards philosophy. This is only true for around 95% of Wikipedia pages: the rest end up in infinite loops, missing pages, or pages without links. As of 12:08 UTC on April 12, 2024, the Philosophy page leads into a loop containing the pages {{w|Existence}} and {{w|Reality}}.
 More info on this bizarre characteristic of the encyclopedia can be found {{w|Wikipedia:Getting to Philosophy|on their page about it}} or on [http://matpalm.com/blog/2011/08/13/wikipedia-philosophy/ this blog].

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	More info on this bizarre characteristic of the encyclopedia can be found {{w\|Wikipedia:Getting to Philosophy\|on their page about it}} or on [http://matpalm.com/blog/2011/08/13/wikipedia-philosophy/ this blog].		More info on this bizarre characteristic of the encyclopedia can be found {{w\|Wikipedia:Getting to Philosophy\|on their page about it}} or on [http://matpalm.com/blog/2011/08/13/wikipedia-philosophy/ this blog].
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		+	As an example path (as of September 30, 2025), a main page article was on the 2025 Ryder Cup. Following the algorithm from here, one gets Golf, Sport, Physical activity, Skeletal muscle, Vertebrate, Animal, Multicellular organism, Organism, Life, Matter, Classical physics, Scientific theory, Universe, Space, Three-dimensional space, Geometry, Mathematics, Theory, Rationalism, Philosophy.

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 The title, {{w|Extended_mind_thesis|"Extended Mind"}}, refers to a theory proposed by philosophers Andy Clark and David Chalmers, which postulates that the mind not only includes what can be found in the skull, but also incorporates external things, like Wikipedia. Others have connected this sort of thing to the innate biological intelligence, or knowledge, but still consider it a different phenomenon under a label such as "{{w|Extelligence|''ex''telligence}}".
-The title text refers to an observed phenomenon that many of Wikipedia's page links eventually lead to the {{w|Philosophy}} page, though he incorrectly states that this happens on all articles. This may be due to the fact that the first few links in any article tend to reference more general or abstract ideas, which eventually gravitate towards philosophy. This is only true for around 95% of Wikipedia pages: the rest end up in infinite loops, missing pages, or pages without links. As of 01:55 UTC on May 24, 2024, the Philosophy page leads into a loop containing the pages {{w|Awareness}}, {{w|Psychology}}, {{w|Mind}}, {{w|Thought}}, and {{w|Consciousness}}.
+The title text refers to an observed phenomenon that many of Wikipedia's page links eventually lead to the {{w|Philosophy}} page, though he incorrectly states that this happens on all articles. This may be due to the fact that the first few links in any article tend to reference more general or abstract ideas, which eventually gravitate towards philosophy. This is only true for around 95% of Wikipedia pages: the rest end up in infinite loops, missing pages, or pages without links. As of 12:08 UTC on April 12, 2024, the Philosophy page leads into a loop containing the pages {{w|Existence}} and {{w|Reality}}.
 More info on this bizarre characteristic of the encyclopedia can be found {{w|Wikipedia:Getting to Philosophy|on their page about it}} or on [http://matpalm.com/blog/2011/08/13/wikipedia-philosophy/ this blog].

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 ==Explanation==
-This comic refers to the fact that the narrator has become so dependent on Wikipedia as a source of information that although it gives him the great advantage that he appears learned on any topic with a remarkable degree of specificity, the downside is that whenever Wikipedia goes offline, the limitations of his actual knowledge are revealed. Note: if he had downloaded Wikipedia using a tool like [Kiwix](https://kiwix.org/), he could have appeared smarter even when Wikipedia was down.
+This comic refers to the fact that the narrator has become so dependent on Wikipedia as a source of information that although it gives him the great advantage that he appears learned on any topic with a remarkable degree of specificity, the downside is that whenever Wikipedia goes offline, the limitations of his actual knowledge are revealed. Note: if he had downloaded Wikipedia using a tool like [https://kiwix.org/ Kiwix], he could have appeared smarter even when Wikipedia was down.
 The title, {{w|Extended_mind_thesis|"Extended Mind"}}, refers to a theory proposed by philosophers Andy Clark and David Chalmers, which postulates that the mind not only includes what can be found in the skull, but also incorporates external things, like Wikipedia. Others have connected this sort of thing to the innate biological intelligence, or knowledge, but still consider it a different phenomenon under a label such as "{{w|Extelligence|''ex''telligence}}".