RE: 10 Questions to make your Brain Hurt Challenge #2 Drag your friends in and present the most awesome answers :-)
I suppose a paradox is when a seemingly impossible thing is apparently demonstrated to happen. Notice I say "seemingly" and "apparently." At least one is always wrong, but it isn't obvious. That is why we see paradoxes.
I'm a theist (a Christian—a baptist). I believe in a mind (soul) separate from the body. However, I believe emotions are chemicals: properties of the body, not the mind. I'm not sure you could say the machine "feels" things, since it doesn't have a mind to actually experience. It's like the Chinese room.
I guess I would have it do my homework.
Is there a typo or is this wrong on purpose? I could try doing an Abbott & Costello thing:
102202+1020002. We begin with the 1,000,000 from the second number. After this comes the 100,000 from the first, making 1,100,000 with 2202+20002 left over. We put in the first three two's and get 1,122,200 with 2+2 left over. Two is 2x1, so we have 1 & 1—ie. 11. When we put this in, we get 1,122,211. QED.
The only reason I'd like to die in sleep is because it avoids pain. Since you say there will be none, I'd die awake.
Live. I can get most of my life goals done from home.
I would say it counts as a lie, even if true. I can't prove it.
I would not be an animal. Animals cannot pursue intellectual ventures.
I don't remember at all, actually. Possibly. Dreams are illusions, so these places are illusions.
Happiness is an emotion, not a metaphysical state (like peace or joy). As such, there isn't really "true" happiness and "false" happiness (unless someone pretends to be happy). Do you mean perpetual happiness? I guess some well treated animals.