Ready to go on a (2 minute, fun) journey?
I promise, at the very least, this will give you something fun to show your (nerdy) friends at your next hang out.
Go to any Wikipedia page. Any. It could be the page for the Big Mac, the Boston Red Sox, or Brexit, it doesn’t matter.
Next, click on the first link in the main text of the Wikipedia article.
Now, repeat this process for all subsequent articles.
After about 10-15 clicks, you’re going to arrive at your final Wikipedia destination: Philosophy.
Every time. Ok, well, about 97% of the time.
I wish there was some (philosophical) explanation to this phenomenon, but it’s really quite simple.
There is a Wikipedia Style Guide, which covers how the lead sentence in each article should be written. The first link in each article should always take the reader to a broader subject area. Eventually, the read reaches the topics of Mathematics, Science, and Language. Following on from those, we eventually get to Philosophy, the mother of all sciences.
No meaningful reflection today. Just a cool fact, and something to experiment with.