How every Wikipedia article links to Philosophy

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I tried several topics and they ended with biology. Ok, now the trees are showing up. Buwahaha... ALIENS!
 
I got an interesting tree with 'insects, hilbert space, marilyn monroe, charcoal, guitar, hohenzollern, chert, and enigma' .

It's all philosophy
 
Bizarrely when one opens the website philosophy appears automatically and drops down beneath the screen (drag it up by clicking and dragging).
 
I was taken from dichromate, on my mind earlier today, to philosophy in 13 steps.
 
Funny how the link between philosophers and philosophy is so far. The link from David Hume to Philosophy visits Heavy metal music.
 
disregardthat said:
Funny how the link between philosophers and philosophy is so far. The link from David Hume to Philosophy visits Heavy metal music.
And rock music, which is not along the path from Philosophy to Michael Jackson.

These trees are Chinese Room AI in action.
 
Thanks for the link! I finally have an understanding of what's it like to be in Mr. Colbert's mind.

Network graph of Wikipedia link chains as green nodes with labels, branching up from Philosophy through Modern philosophy, Property (philosophy), Quantity, Mathematics, Order theory, Information and Knowledge; side branches lead to Academic discipline and Bill O'Reilly, and to Science and Bear.
 
I got a surprisingly long branch with "taco" :biggrin: