Philosophy on Ghafoor's Personal Blog

Paradoxes - Puzzles and Hidden Patterns

hello@ghafoorsblog.com (AG Sayyed) — Sun, 01 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Some answers feel wrong even when they are right, and some traps are built so that no exit exists. These shorts cover a game show puzzle, a predicting wizard, a bureaucratic loop, rare catastrophic events and a pattern hidden in real-world numbers.

The Monty Hall Problem

Published 2026-07-22 · Watch the short

You pick one of three doors, with a car behind one and goats behind the other two. The host, who knows what is behind every door, opens a different door and shows a goat. Should you switch? Most people say it makes no difference, but switching raises your odds from one in three to two in three.

Simulation - Shadows and the Strangeness of Existence

hello@ghafoorsblog.com (AG Sayyed) — Sun, 01 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000

How sure are you that the world you see is the base level of reality? A film about nested simulations, Plato's prisoners, a science fiction writer's strange vision and the plain wonder of existing all ask how much of what feels real we have actually checked.

The 13th Floor and Nested Simulations

Published 2026-09-12 · Watch the short

The 1999 film The 13th Floor imagines scientists who build a digital recreation of a city. The people inside believe they are real, until one character notices inconsistencies and discovers that his world is itself a simulation built inside another reality.

Who Is the Self

hello@ghafoorsblog.com (AG Sayyed) — Sun, 01 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000

What makes you the same person across years of change? These shorts test that question with copies, teleporters, rebuilt ships, one shared soul, tiny choices and fixed fates, and they all circle back to what we are actually protecting when we fear losing ourselves.

Derek Parfit and the Self as a Pattern

Published 2026-08-11 · Watch the short (the same idea appears in the 2026-08-05 short)

Philosopher Derek Parfit asked what makes you the same person you were ten years ago. Most cells have been replaced, memories have faded or been rewritten, and beliefs and personality have changed. In the video’s account, he searched for a continuous thread, such as a soul or a fixed consciousness, and found none.