The Oracle of Athena

This is what happens when the mind equals the brain.

The Descending Lamp Price Paradox is where rationality meets impossibility and irrationality meets possibility. We dissect this paradox from the bottom-up and from the top-down, examining the clash between rational decision-making and practical counterexamples. Featuring the innovative concept of N-cent machines, this video offers a fresh perspective on decision-making under stringent conditions.

This video examines the proof given in the paradox in detail and demonstrates that introducing chance does not solve the conundrum.

The idea was to take the most likely case of non-physical reality and use it to bludgeon open a non-physical realm in which consciousness and free will could reside. The idea failed.

Choose a price to purchase the lamp that will grant you anything you want. But you must at some point in your life sell the lamp for less than you purchased it for. We can prove that there is no amount of money that you should pay for the lamp; we can also show that there are infinitely many amounts you can pay for the lamp that will leave you better off. Which is it? Which is the better argument and why?

This video presents a theory of free will and how to attain it.

This 56 second Short explains the one obvious error in the proof on which the paradox is based.

Be able to see the answer immediately to the 3-door and the n-door versions of the Monty Hall Problem.

This video provides a proof of the key fact yielding the strange solutions to the three-door and the n-door Monty Hall conundrums.