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And lo and behold, I tried word "word" and it loops between "emotion" and "psychology". http://wikiloopr.com/word
This may be hyper naive but is this the consequence of beginning most articles representing the current topic as a more specific form of another topic? For example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algebra "Algebra ... is a branch of mathematics." (mathematics being a link) So if you continue to generalize you'll end up at the most general subject which appears to be philosophy. [update] added an example
It's funny, but it's true that everything in life ultimately leads back to philosophy. As noted by XKCD, everything is based on something else: http://xkcd.com/435/ And I think after Maths on that should come Philosophy.
I quite like the loop between Doubt and Belief http://wikiloopr.com/Doubt
Edit: Looks like somebody is editing certain articles that don't have philosophy as the first link to have it. Psychology used to loop with itself through like 5 intermediates.
After having twenty tries that got me into the philosophy loop, I started to think what are the most basic concepts that philosophy is "made of". Maybe I could escape the loop that way? And lo and behold, I tried word "word" and it loops between "emotion" and "psychology". http://wikiloopr.com/word
It's funny, but it's true that everything in life ultimately leads back to philosophy. As noted by XKCD, everything is based on something else: http://xkcd.com/435/ And I think after Maths on that should come Philosophy.
"Nematode" and "Flow (psychology)" stop at "psychology" which I think is just another example of that discipline putting on airs.
From a mathematical perspective, this is actually not that surprising. Think of the act of clicking the first link in the Wikipedia article as a function that takes in the page you're on and outputs another page. If you call this function on itself over and over again (ie use the output of one step as in the input of the next step), you will eventually enter a loop. The proof of this is simple: there are only a finit…
The first word I tried — jeans — and it failed to make philosophy loop :) Apparently, any articles from generated list will fail too.
