Hard Problem of Things

The metaphysical puzzle of individuation: What makes a "thing" a distinct, bounded object? At the quantum level, boundaries are fuzzy. At the cosmic level, everything is connected by fields and forces. Our everyday world of discrete objects (trees, cars, people) is a cognitive carving of a continuous reality. The hard problem is that "thingness" is not a fundamental property of the universe, but a useful fiction imposed by our minds. Where does a mountain end and the valley begin? At what point do the cells from your lunch become "you"? We live in a universe of processes, but we think in terms of nouns.

Example: Is a "chair" a thing? Or is it a temporary arrangement of wood molecules, soon to be kindling or dust? Its identity as a "chair" depends entirely on its function relative to a human sitter. The hard problem: The world doesn't come pre-sliced into things. We do the slicing based on our needs, language, and perception. This makes "things" profoundly relational and unstable. A physicist, an artist, and an ant would carve the same patch of reality into entirely different sets of "things." Hard Problem of Things.

by Enkigal January 24, 2026

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by .6.9.7.6.ArimorylulA.8.3.0.5. February 14, 2026

Stranger Things

This is the best show ever! My favourite is Dustin. If you watch the show you will get attached to it and will be so sad when it’s over 😔 you’ll smile with them, cry with them, scream with them, laugh with them. You’ll get the stupid jokes. When you see season 3 I’m sure you’ll think Dustin and Steve are the best duo! You’ll ship so and so. And you’ll scream for them to kiss.

Person 1: Ugh I’m so bored what’s a good show to watch?
Person 2: STRANGER THINGS!!!
Person 1: I’ve already seen it as it’s such a good show! How could you not have seen it?!

by StrangerThings00629 February 17, 2026

Here’s the thing

A Marvel joke used for when someone is going to spout a bullshit reason but instead of saying said reason, attaches an image of The Thing/Benjamin Grimm usually doing something ridiculous or intellectual.

Mostly used in the game community known as “Marvel Rivals”

Person 1: If you can give me one good reason I’ll do it
Person 2: Well you see… here’s the thing.

Person 1: Why the fuck does this Thing keep targeting me?!
Person 2: Well you see.. here’s the thing.

by ShinDoesVids March 1, 2026

Bias of Impartial Things

A pervasive bias where human creations—institutions, systems, artifacts, knowledge—are treated as if they were impartial, objective, and free from the human interests that produced them. The Bias of Impartial Things projects neutrality onto things that are anything but neutral: science shaped by funding and paradigm, technology embedded with values and assumptions, culture carrying centuries of history, economics built on particular theories of human nature, law encoding power relations, secularism reflecting specific historical struggles. The bias treats these human products as if they fell from the sky, as if they weren't made by particular people in particular times with particular interests. It's the ultimate fetishism: forgetting that humans made the human world, and treating that world as natural, neutral, inevitable. The smartphone isn't impartial; it's built with minerals mined by children, designed by engineers in Silicon Valley, powered by algorithms trained on biased data. But the Bias of Impartial Things sees only the device, not the world that made it.

"The algorithm is impartial—it just processes data." Bias of Impartial Things: treating a human creation as if it weren't human. The algorithm was trained on historical data full of bias, designed by engineers with assumptions, deployed by companies with interests. But the bias sees only code, not context. The thing seems impartial; the world that made it disappears. Impartial things are never impartial; they're just things whose making we've forgotten."

by Dumu The Void March 8, 2026