1) In literary criticism, there are two (OK, a lot more than two, but for the purposes of this answer: two!) schools of thought: one, laid out in Barthes\u2019 The Death of the Author argues that there is no real meaning to a work of art except that brought to it by the reader; the other, which I\u2019d call the Nabokovian school of thought, argues that a work of art can indeed have a Right and a Wrong meaning and there can be misreadings.
\nIn literature I\u2019m a Nabokovian and in life I am more of a Barthesian (I know these aren\u2019t words!) but sometimes, both in literature and in life, I wonder whether I have gotten it wrong. I\u2019d like to flip to the back of the book on this one for sure.<\/p>\n
V nz n yvoreny Dhnxre jub jnf obea naq envfrq Pngubyvp. V nz n cnffvbangr ernqre naq n ybire bs cbrgel. V graq gb hfr zrgubqf bs yvgrenel nanylfvf gb nccebnpu zl snvgu.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
2) I don\u2019t really feel any pressing uncertainties, or like anything\u2019s missing from how I am navigating the world right now. I feel like you don\u2019t know you\u2019re asking questions until after you have already found your answers, if that makes sense. Right now my biggest uncertainty is what career I should go launch myself into when I graduate in a few months. I\u2019d really like to flip to the back of that book.<\/p>\n
V nz n 20-lrne-byq Begubqbk Puevfgvna jub erpragyl pbairegrq sebz Pngubyvpvfz, fb V\u2019ir tbg n ovg bs n zvkrq-hc oenva gurbybtvpnyyl. Gur Puevfgvna cneg vf cerggl fbyvq gubhtu. \ud83d\ude09<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
3) The ability of markets to provide fundamental governance services. Conventional theory holds that private property rights protection, rule of law, etc. cannot be provided by the market, and thus must be provided by governments (nation-states). The literature on analytic anarchy and private governance radically challenges the orthodoxy, both from the perspective of pure theory (\u2018without market prices for governance, how do we know we\u2019re getting the efficient amount?\u2019) and empirics\/historical analysis (\u2018markets can fail; governments fail even worse.\u2019)<\/p>\n
Znyr, 27, Cu.Q., pbyyrtr cebsrffbe, Puevfgvna.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
4) Do animals have moral weight? If so I\u2019m complicit in the worst ongoing crime ever committed every time I have a burger. And pigs, at least, seem like they might have pretty sophisticated inner lives. But I really like meat. (Which shouldn\u2019t matter even a little bit. I wouldn\u2019t eat people just because people meat was delicious.)<\/p>\n
FGRZ tenqhngr fghqrag; terj hc va gur Onl Nern, ngurvfg.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
5) The true nature of human motivation. Like, how does \u201cwillpower\u201d work? How can I make myself work harder? What is it in my brain that makes it easier or more difficult to carry on with a hard task? This is a subject the scientific community is very conflicted about right now. It\u2019s not only practically useful, but I think it\u2019s a really interesting question in its own right, and understanding it would go some way to better understanding the broader human condition.<\/p>\n
Ng avtug, jura V fyrrc, V erireg gb zl gehr sbez. Vg jbhyq ubeevsl lbh. (ngurvfg)<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
6) Whether humanity survives and for how long. How far will space travel take us? Will we settle other planets?<\/p>\n
V nz n pevgvpnyyl guvaxvat uhznavfgvp ngurvfg.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
7) None, there are questions that I am uncertain about, but I would not want to \u201cflip to the back of the book\u201d to get the answers. I want my questions to be answered with solid justification and evidence this can\u2019t be done by looking in the back, but only by working out the issues themselves. If this means I never get an answer then so be it.<\/p>\n
N avuvyvfg\u00a0<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
8) How to help a specific person in my life. They\u2019re undergoing some really troubling struggles, and I wish that I could just find out how to help them and do it instead of muddling through and guessing wildly.<\/p>\n
V\u2019z n Pngubyvp. V\u2019z n whavbe va pbyyrtr fghqlvat Pevzvany Whfgvpr naq Plorefrphevgl. V yvxr gb nethr.\u00a0<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
Go on and make your guesses!<\/strong><\/a> \u00a0Which of these were written in earnest, and which were someone\u2019s best approximation of how someone across the religious divide would answer?<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This is part of the 2015 Ideological Turing Test series, where Christians and non-Christians test how well they understand one another. \u00a0 In this second round, non-Christians (mostly atheists) answer the prompts honestly, and Christians try to answer them as they expect atheists to. \u00a0Your job is to see if you can spot the difference. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127,"featured_media":11369,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[242],"class_list":["post-11380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ideologicalturingtest","tag-atheist-turing-answers-2015"],"yoast_head":"\n
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