Lunch Logic

We examine the underlying causes of accidents and the extent to which they can be anticipated or prevented. We then turn to the subjective experience of being in such accidents, as well as the broader social responses, often marked by indifference or a lack of empathy toward victims. Further, we consider the question of responsibility: whether individuals can reasonably be held accountable for eve...

For the third time on Lunch Logic, we introduce new insights on helping the public engage with mathematics and other STEM subjects. We start by introducing the idea that emphasizes the importance of processing and understanding the information rather than merely “learning” it. We give examples of some of the coolest discoveries we’ve learned from our past math and science classes and reflect on ho...

We dive deeper into the nature of superstition and question the why and how behind its existence. These questions include whether it works, why it exists, whether it will go away, and whether it should go away. We also try to understand the motivation behind them by understanding humanity’s nature to confront fear and impose control as well as how our lack of knowledge enhances the belief.

We start our episode by acknowledging how the term “laws” subconsciously affects us into thinking they are constructible and engineered entities such as governmental laws which shows how much role language and framing play in our thought processes. Then, we introduce a few thought experiments to demonstrate that the laws might arise from preventing these paradoxes from occurring rather than them b...

In our one year anniversary episode, we once again talk about one of our most mentioned and favorites topics: Math. We explore the properties of mathematics and why they make the subject so loveable. These properties include Truth, wisdom, beauty, perfection, logic, satisfaction, and objectivity. We also explore whether because of those same properties, they might cause hatred towards the subject...

We discuss where social constructs come from and how we come to accept them. We analyze how certain illogical social constructs become barriers that restrict our freedom in our society and end up becoming detrimental to us. We also mention to what extent we should accept these norms that aren't necessary logical or serve any practical purpose but is purely for the sake of presenting ourselves to o...

We discuss how to be a good and friendly alien by trying to analyze an alien civilization's rules of ethics and incorporating them in our policy. We bring up how regardless of their level of civilization, we must first change our way of treating animals on this planet before expanding our principles into the intergalactic space. We emphasize the importance of making partners in the Universe consid...

How do we start losing childhood innocence? Is it purely natural and if so is there anything we can learn from it? We talk about the nature of being a child and how similar we all were in the past. We also talk about the reality we live in where we have to live up to society's expectations and divisions/conflicts that occur while forgetting that we were all the same at one point.

We talk about what problems the existence of an afterlife can solve as well as the burden that comes with the eternalness of afterlife. We also talk about what it means to say goodbye to our Earthmates forever and acknowledging our finite fate in the Universe. We briefly mention the similarities between graduation and death and humanity’s tendency to deny the existence of death. By looking at diff...

ft. Jack Williams / We talk about the roles sports play in society and how they influence the public. We talk about whether sports can be seen as a distraction or if it’s an appropriate form of entertainment and is equivalent to other types of entertainment. We also bring up the issue of idolizing professional athletes especially when it comes to young children and the consequences/boundaries of i...

We discuss the tools humans have invented that allow us to understand the Universe better and how they require previous knowledge of the Universe. We also relate the process to that of a video game. We talk about why the solutions of our questions in trying to understand reality is a lot like a puzzle that has elegant methods or solutions and whether they could perhaps be an evidence for the Unive...

We talk about the traits that Light, Mathematics, and God all have in common such as the philosophical question of their existence, similarities between “perfect” world of heaven and the platonic world, the incredible effectiveness mathematics and religion have in the physical world, the shared trait of omnipresence in Light and God, different manifestations of Light(wave and a particle) and God(t...

How does the physical stuff in our brain allow the emergence of the mind? Is consciousness predictable or is there a non-physical phenomena that doesn’t allow the predictability of consciousness? What causes our intuition in believing that something is scientific/unscientific? What does it mean for a theory to be scientific? Why does consciousness exist? Is it a mere inevitability due to the infin...

ft. Sam Wasson / We share our experiences on religion and faith while elaborating on the positive and negative consequences of religion in society. We talk about what defines religion and whether cults or spirituality is fundamentally the same. We also talk about the danger of believing you are right and others are wrong while justifying your actions based on a divine being. We briefly mention Pac...

ft. Malena Price / We discuss the development and consequences of major breakthroughs in technology such as the invention of the internet and smartphone as well as the ethical problems that emerge. We dive deeper into the nature of helping for the sake of attention and whether it can be morally ignored as long as it brings the same positive consequences to society or whether the innate motivation...

ft. Jason Resch, the creator of AlwaysAsking.com / Why is there something rather than nothing? Why not nothing? Today, we discuss the most obvious and perhaps the most mysterious question that humanity can pose. We first start off by defining what “nothing” is and whether it’s achievable by any means. By hypothesizing the possibility of something emerging out of nothing and the existence of self-e...

ft. Mr. Brian Stukey / We discuss the characteristics of successful physics students at different difficulty levels. We also discuss the current philosophy of education in physics and how we can improve it in the future. By analyzing the most fundamental ideas, we question the extent of the "realness" in physics. Such questions include whether ideas that were derived from the more "fundamental ide...

ft. Ben Rosenfield / Does infinity exist in the physical world? If not, why does it exist mathematically? Are there different levels to infinity? What are the similarities and differences between zero, one, infinity, and negative infinity? We run through a number of thought experiments to explore the nature of infinity in both the physical world and the mathematical world.

3rd part of “Is Math Invented or Discovered?”; We discuss how we can approach the questions of why the laws of nature have to be the way they are by analyzing the essence of empirical and logical truths. We also discuss whether the constants and patterns that appear random to us must emerge simply due to their necessity. By trying to analyze the essence of “brute facts”, we approach whether the ob...

ft. Anderson Corum / Is Time a man-made concept or does it exist independently? Can an object move with an imaginary velocity or experience time greater than what the Universe allows? Is "here" analogous to "now"? Does time stop one from keeping their personal identity?

Would a perfect world be better than our current one? Is there an objectivity in beauty and aesthetics? Is diversity and individuality potentially more important than absolute unity? What are Laws for?

How often do you question the dead animal on your plate every day? Why do we live in a universe where one life’s painful death is inevitable for sustaining other lives? Who’s capable of stopping humanity when they are intolerably taking advantage of other lives? How much responsibility do we hold and how important is it?

Are humans naturally inclined to grow accustomed to things? Surrounded by extraordinary reality, infrastructure, inventions, and technologies in our daily lives, we often struggle to truly appreciate them. As children, everything sparks curiosity and wonder, yet that sense of amazement seems to fade as we grow older. In this episode, we ask how questioning what feels obvious might help us break fr...

In our first video episode, we continue our discussion from Episode #53(The Social Consequences of Determinism) and explore the idea of failing/achieving the Universal Purpose. We then explore the relationship between determinism and the Theory of Everything. We cap off the episode by discussing our theories on the future of society.

Can morality be constructed with the same rigor as mathematics or science? How much of our law and morality is based on emotion rather than Justice rooted from Truth? We discuss whether morality can be formalized into a system as precise and logical as the fundamental laws of nature, and the possibility of moral disagreement even after the construction of objective morality.