How many degrees of separation from Philosophy? []

According to the ALT text for this XKCD strip, if you click the first article-text link that is not in parentheses or italics for any article, you will eventually end up at Philosophy...I tried two different articles (one of which was Spam (food)), and it seems to be working...let's list how many steps it takes to get from one page to philosophy (and see if there are any exceptions to the rule)...

Spam (food) > Canning > Food preservation > Food > Plant > Life > Physical body > Physics > Natural science > Naturalism (philosophy) > Philosophy (10 steps)

Batman > Character (arts) > Representation (arts) > Semantics > Meaning (linguistics) > Linguistics > Human > Extant taxon > Biology > Natural science > Naturalism (philosophy) > Philosophy (11 steps)



....Spam is closer to Philosophy than Batman...[]

There's always only 6 clicks from Hitler. Hitler enters a loop after 10 or so going by those rules.

Doom( the video game) has 18 steps...

From Princess Francisca of Orléans-Braganza, it takes 12 hits.

From R.E.M. (the rock back) to Philosophy, it took 17 steps.

From The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (AKA Mormons) back to Philosophy, 15 steps.

From Tekken back to Philosophy again, 12 steps.

From 4chan back to Philosophy yet again, 12 steps.



Holy shit.

@Sarcasmic: Actually, Hitler > Austria-Hungary > Constitutional monarchy > Government > Social sciences > List of academic disciplines > Academia > Community > Living > Life > Physical body > Physics > Natural science > Naturalism (philosophy) > Philosophy, so 14 steps. []

Star Wars: 8 steps

Pokémon: 17 step

JT_the_Ninja wrote:@Sarcasmic: Actually, Hitler > Austria-Hungary > Constitutional monarchy > Government > Social sciences > List of academic disciplines > Academia > Community > Living > Life > Physical body > Physics > Natural science > Naturalism (philosophy) > Philosophy, so 14 steps. []

Damn, must have misclicked somewhere. Academia, I think.

Zzyzx,_California > San Bernardino County, California > County (United States) > U.S. state > Federated state > Constitution > State (polity) > Social sciences > List of academic disciplines > Academia > Community > Living > Life > Physical body > Physics > Natural science > Naturalism (philosophy) > Philosophy (18 steps)

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"West Coast Main Line" doesn't seem to go to philosophy, unless I'm doing something wrong. I've ended up at Indo-European languages and then it just goes in a little loop to Greek (language) and back.

West Coast Main Line > Rail transport > Transport > Cargo > Good (economics) > Economics > Social science > Academic discipline > Knowledge > Fact > Latin > Italic languages > Indo-European languages > Language family > Language > Human > Taxonomy > Ancient Greek > Greek language > Indo-European languages

"Science", surprisingly, also ends up in the same loop, I'm pretty sure.

You forgot to exclude links in parentheses, which is how you got to Latin. The real sequence goes like this:

West Coast Main Line > Railway > Transport > Cargo > Good (economics) > Economics > Social Science > Acacdemic Discipline > Knowledge > Fact > Experience > Concept > Philosophy.

12 steps. []

Oh, that's disappointing. I knew I was doing something wrong.

Comorros > archipelago > island > continent > landmass > supercontinent > Geology > Science > Knowledge > fact > Experience > Concept > Philosophy. (13 steps)

Holy balls.

Philosophy is at the core of Wikipedia. []

12 steps from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

"Penis" is also 12 steps.

∴ penis = turtles

Turtles in my penis? It's more likely than you think.

Well, I was researching for an assignment and, being on Wikipedia, I eventually turned to try this on various articles.
Later, I tried to see how far away Daisy Owl was from Philosophy, but the page had been deleted. Oh well.

"Non-notable online comic."

Man, there are few things more emasculating to a webcomic artist than Wikipedia damning you to obscurity.

I think that if someone's girlfriend left them for a female sheep that would be pretty emasculating.

Wet Rarity is basically turning into Weird Sex Rarity.

Maybe that's why she's- NO! BAD RAPTOR! *hits self with newspaper*