Heard of me? 

A method of telling people about your accomplishments in a condescending manner, implying that they should already know about them, and are stupid for being ignorant.

Julian Assange: "I founded WikiLeaks. Heard of me?"

Heard of me? by RandyPants December 22, 2010

I would hit that so hard the next person to pull me out would be crowned King of England 

When a girl is so hot that screwing her could be nothing other than mythic or legendary.

That is the hottest girl I've ever seen. I would hit that so hard the next person to pull me out would be crowned King of England.

I would hit that so hard the next person to pull me out would be crowned King of England by AirRon October 26, 2007

Hard Problem of Mediumship

The fundamental epistemological dilemma: How could one ever verify a specific communication from the deceased, as opposed to generalized cold reading, subconscious fraud, or the medium's own psychology? Even if you grant the possibility of an afterlife, the hard problem is the "crossing of the ontological gap." Information known only to the deceased and a living recipient could theoretically be transmitted, but proving the mechanism was spirit communication and not telepathy (between living minds), clairvoyance, or pure chance is arguably impossible. It's a signal-in-noise problem where the "noise" includes the entire universe of unknown information.

Example: A medium tells a client, "Your father says he's sorry about the broken watch." The client is shocked, as they privately had a watch from their father that broke. The hard problem: Could the medium have telepathically (or subconsciously) read that memory from the client's mind? Could it be a lucky guess from a common symbol? Even a "veridical" piece of information doesn't isolate the source. To prove mediumship, you'd need a piece of information known only to the deceased and no living person, which is, by definition, unverifiable. The channel can never be definitively identified. Hard Problem of Mediumship.

Hard Problem of Mediumship by Nammugal January 24, 2026

Hard Problem of Metaphysics

The problem of its own possibility. Metaphysics seeks to describe the fundamental nature of reality (being, time, causality, objects). The hard problem is that any such description must be made from within reality, using a human mind, which is a product of that reality. We are like cells in a body trying to describe human anatomy from the inside, using only cellular language. Our concepts (like "cause" or "substance") may be projections of our cognitive architecture, not features of the world-in-itself. Therefore, metaphysics may tell us more about how human minds must think than about how reality must be.

*Example: A metaphysician argues brilliantly that time is an illusion, a block universe. But they still must make their dinner reservation for 7 PM, live with the anxiety of deadlines, and experience the undeniable flow of their own consciousness. The hard problem: The metaphysical theory, even if logically coherent, is existentially inert. It cannot be lived. This suggests metaphysics may be an elaborate, self-consistent language game, decoupled from the reality it purports to explain. We are building castles of abstraction on a foundation (our own perception) we cannot inspect without using the very tools we're inspecting.* Hard Problem of Metaphysics.

Hard Problem of Metaphysics by Enkigal January 24, 2026

Hard Problem of Quantum Mechanics

The Measurement Problem: What constitutes a "measurement" that collapses the wave function? The mathematics of QM describes particles in superpositions (multiple states at once). Yet, when we observe, we find one definite state. The equations work perfectly but offer no clear line between the quantum world (governed by probability waves) and the classical world of definite objects. Is consciousness required? Is it interaction with a large system? The theory is silent, making it a predictively powerful algorithm for results, but not a complete description of reality. This isn't a missing piece; it's a foundational fog at the theory's heart.

Example: In the double-slit experiment, a single electron acts like a wave and goes through both slits simultaneously, interfering with itself—unless you place a detector to see which slit it goes through. Then it acts like a particle. The hard problem: What's so special about the detector? It's made of atoms obeying quantum rules too. At what exact point does the "probability cloud" become a "click" in a machine? Quantum mechanics gives you the odds of the click, but treats the click itself as a mysterious, external event. The theory is a recipe book that works, but it doesn't explain the kitchen. Hard Problem of Quantum Mechanics.

Hard Problem of Quantum Mechanics by Enkigal January 24, 2026

huge chunk of meat with a big heart 

A huge chunk of meat is a person, usually extremely buff and tall that looks intimidating but is actually very nice and couldn't hurt a fly

examples of a person like this is Jonathan Joestar from the popular anime and manga JoJo's Bizarre Adventures

Person1: how was math class? what do you think about your new teacher?
Person2: He's a huge chunk of meat with a big heart

huge chunk of meat with a big heart by YesImRealManIloveToDoTheCrime. September 3, 2021

Hard Problem of Spirituality and Metaphysics

The Hard Problem of Spirituality and Metaphysics concerns the difficulty of explaining subjective spiritual experiences, metaphysical meaning, and existential significance using objective, physical descriptions. Similar to the hard problem of consciousness, it asks why inner experiences of transcendence, purpose, or “the sacred” exist at all, and whether they correspond to real structures beyond the physical world. The problem challenges reductionist explanations, suggesting that spiritual phenomena may involve extraphysical dimensions, emergent metaphysical properties, or irreducible aspects of reality that resist empirical measurement.

Hard Problem of Spirituality and Metaphysics — Example

Two individuals undergo near-identical neurological states, yet one experiences a profound sense of transcendence while the other does not. No physical measurement explains the difference. The hard problem arises in explaining why spiritual meaning emerges subjectively and whether such experiences correspond to real metaphysical structures rather than being purely neurological artifacts.

Hard Problem of Spirituality and Metaphysics by AbzuInExile January 24, 2026