Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

Sports movies are one of my favourite genres to watch. Whether it’s about chess (“Queen of Katwe”), baseball (“Field of Dreams”), poker (“21”), or chess again (“Pawn Sacrifice”), you can expect to see similar elements in almost every sports movie ever created. When you watch a slasher movie, you know what you’re going to get.…

Luck is a concept that some people seem to believe in, and other people manage to ignore. The idea of luck has been with us for centuries. When you’re lucky, you believe that you can perform an action (or sometimes carry an object) which entitles you to better odds in probability than those around you.…