Do you philosophize daily?

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I think some people are born philosophers, not necessarily asking the big questions like how and why did the universe begin. But simpler everyday questions. For instance just today I ordered some food at a restaurant with a friend, and when the waiter took our order, he looked me in my eyes and asked me if I wanted ice in my water, I said no. I didn't give it a second thought even though the way he asked me was kinda weird. When he brought me my drink there was ice in it. And that made me think. Why did he do that? Why did he bring me ice when he specifically ask me if I wanted it or not... And these are just some of the questions that went through my mind.
Did he forget my answer for not wanting ice?
Did he want me to make a complaint, because he was bored out of his mind?
Was he an attention freak who wanted me to point it out?
Was he gay and wanted a conversation starter?
Had I pissed him off in any way?
Were those ice cubes made out of pee water?
Was me gonna spit in my food if I pointed it out to him?

I ended up not pointing it out to him, and rather checked to see if he gave me any other weird looks. When he brought us our food he didn't give me or my glass of ice water a second look. So my guess is he just forgot.

Any of you over-thinking seemingly simple things?

I don't know if I'm a real philosopher or anything like that,
but I can't help but wonder about the universe every day.

Of course I end up over-thinking social situations because
I'm AS. Usually it just makes me tired and then I want to
start thinking about something asocial like what would
a couple of patterns look like in certain
formation.

You do seem like a good thinker. You can probably
use the sort of thinking that you just described in
various situations, both social and asocial.

I find philosophy comes somewhat easier after a sneeze or a fart.

I'm in constant ponder mode.

I ponder abstract questions and issues quite frequently. What I do is not necessarily philosophy. I am nt particularly fond of metaphysics. It is too general and not empirically testable.

ruveyn

I usually ponder why people do what they do. There's a constant source of speculation.

Yes, I philosophize all the time too, about the most simple things.

Right earlier now I read a topic title here at wrongplanet inside the thread "What support would have made your life easier". Only the half-bottom part of the title was visible, so I read "your me easier" instead of "your life easier". That seemed pretty parsimonic, which is reasonable, but wrong.

Also, when I opened today google chrome, it showed my most accessed sites. I glanced over one of them, then right after opened my gmail account and typed a password. I typed the password of the site I had just glanced, instead of that of gmail (which I knew I was the site I was getting into). This seemed like conditioning, when I receive stimulus "A", type password "X".

For those first two, I think they tell something about human nature. We are prone to mistakes, as we are simply not perfect, but products of an imperfect evolutionary proccess. Understanding at which points we are imperfect is important if we want to commit at making less mistakes as individuals or as an species/civilization.

Also I got to watch tv a bit and thought about the futility of people's idols and interests, and how media distorts our very human nature massing us with useless or even damaging information.

I think I am never paying attention to what most people are, but instead looking at less information oriented details and more on pattern/theory/explanation-driven observations.

Yes I do, on a daily basis, and its hard to turn off. help!

I don't really think about the small things as in the opening post. But I do think about the beginning and the end of the universe, the existence of a higher power, the meaning of life, human emotions, human corruption, etc... This is basically what I think about the entire day, not that productive.

Nope. Usually its just food, sex, beer, and American football.

If the waiter asked you whether you wanted ice in your drink and you said no and the drink delivered to you had ice in it I might tend to think the waiter had a poor memory or was involuntarily distracted.

Yes, I like philosophy. An idea that I'm currently intrigued by is mind-body dualism. I think that people are brain functions, not tangible things. Think about it this way:

Jack and Jill get into a car accident. Jack becomes brain dead, but his body is fine. Jill's brain is fine, but her body is rendered useless. Some doctors are able to transfer Jill's brain into Jack's body. The person resulting from this only has Jill's memories and personality. What has happened to Jack, and what has happened to Jill? Jack is dead, even though his body is alive. His memories and personality only existed as a function of his brain, which is dead. Jill is alive, even though her body is dead. Her brain is still alive and well, so her personality and memories are in tact. What if we could upload a person's mind onto an perfectly functioning artificial brain? Would it not be the same person, even though the medium is different? If you run the same program on two different types of computers, are they not still the same program?

i think of myself as being in a sort of "sleep" mode a lot of the time. when others posit questions, i awaken and automatically consider the situation from every angle my limited brain can imagine. but i do not have truly original ideas or thoughts.