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Neurophilosophy (5,874 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

of localization of function is the radio repairman thought experiment. In this thought experiment, a radio repairman opens up a radio and rips out a tube

Artificial brain (1,317 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

understand how the human brain works, known as cognitive neuroscience. A thought experiment in the philosophy of artificial intelligence, demonstrating that it

Linda Zagzebski (1,291 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

on questions of epistemic value including the "espresso machine" thought experiment (a predecessor to the swamping problem) as a counter to reliabilism

Reliabilism (1,187 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

argument against philosophical skepticism, such as the brain in a vat thought experiment. Process reliabilism is a form of epistemic externalism. A broadly

Observer effect (physics) (1,080 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

object still experiences a change (leading to the Schrödinger's cat thought experiment). This effect can be found in many domains of physics, but can usually

Judith Jarvis Thomson (1,629 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

variety of fields, but she is most known for her work regarding the thought experiment titled the trolley problem and her writings on abortion. She is credited

The Chinese Room (1,194 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Portsmouth in 2007, and is named after John Searle's Chinese room thought experiment. In August 2018, it became a subsidiary of Sumo Digital. Thechineseroom's

Digital Morse theory (712 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

tank thought experiment: Counting islands as the water level changes The essential insight of continuous Morse theory can be intuited by a thought experiment

Joule expansion (2,678 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

gas fills the whole container. The Joule expansion, treated as a thought experiment involving ideal gases, is a useful exercise in classical thermodynamics

Roderick Chisholm (2,426 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

implication for the "reconstructed ship" that is often a part of the thought experiment. If every single part of the original ship were saved perfectly, so

Philosophy of color (1,851 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

is a thought experiment underpinning the knowledge argument. It was an argument to counter color realism and more broadly physicalism. The thought experiment

What Is It Like to Be a Bat? (1,531 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

acknowledged Nagel's paper as "the most widely cited and influential thought experiment about consciousness".: 441 Nagel argues you cannot compare human consciousness

The Brick Moon (424 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

hypothetical artificial object which is projected from a mountain, as a thought experiment to explain why natural satellites move as they do). "The Brick Moon"

Robinson Crusoe economy (3,038 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

to the 1719 novel of the same name authored by Daniel Defoe. As a thought experiment in economics, many international trade economists have found this

Wonder en is gheen Wonder (231 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

mathematician and engineer Simon Stevin's commentary to his famous thought experiment: even if something looks strange, it can still have a naturalistic

List of Playboy Playmates of 1964 (1,070 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

November 15, 2024. The Thought Experiment (March 2010). "Valentine Vixen — Nancy Jo Hooper, Miss February 1964 « The Thought Experiment". Retrieved January

The Matrix (franchise) (7,487 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

ideas, but also the dilemma of choice vs. control, the brain in a vat thought experiment, messianism, and the concepts of interdependency and love. Influences

Radical translation (873 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Radical translation is a thought experiment in Word and Object, a major philosophical work from American philosopher Willard Van Orman Quine. It is used

Patrick Hayden (scientist) (359 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

is revealed in the Hawking radiation; called the Hayden-Preskill thought experiment, turned out to be compatible with the black hole complementarity hypothesis

Direct reference theory (874 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

using the formal apparatus of possible worlds. The possible worlds thought-experiment first takes the subject, and then tries to imagine the subject in

Philosophical Investigations (4,748 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

presupposes our ability to use it. He first asks the reader to perform a thought experiment: come up with a definition of the word game. While this may at first

H. J. McCloskey (299 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Philosophy in 1978. McCloskey is known for his sheriff scenario, a thought experiment he used to criticize "extreme" utilitarianism, or what later came

Zombie Blues (231 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

singer of the band. Its name comes from Chalmers' philosophical zombie thought experiment—a hypothetical creature that looks like humans but lacks consciousness

Eshelby's inclusion (278 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

first devised by John D. Eshelby in 1957. Eshelby started with a thought experiment on the possible stress, strain, and displacement fields in a linear

Singlet state (1,647 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Along with Podolsky and Rosen, Einstein proposed the EPR paradox thought experiment to help define his concerns with what he viewed as the non-locality

Jocelyn Parr (writer) (362 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

is clearly a novel of ideas, but it never reads like a treatise or thought experiment, though in a sense it is. Parr was nominated for the Governor General's

Early modern philosophy (5,050 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

Thought Experiment | Blog of the APA. Retrieved 18 April 2021, from https://blog.apaonline.org/2020/10/21/early-modern-philosophy-a-perverse-thought-experiment/

Howard Robinson (646 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

independently and in the same year as Frank Jackson, but Robinson's thought experiment involves sounds rather than colors. He is Professor of Philosophy

Self (3,398 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

witness-consciousness, "reify[ing] consciousness as an eternal self." One thought experiment in the philosophy of personal identity is the teletransportation paradox

Schrödingers katt (271 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

NRK1 from 1990 to 2016. The program, named after a quantum mechanics thought experiment by the Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger, was produced by NRK Trøndelag

Douglas SASSTO (1,494 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

such an engine existed, the RS-25, using a RS-25-powered S-IVB as a thought experiment to demonstrate the real-world feasibility of SSTO launchers. This

Reversal test (851 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

is an important causal factor in the initial judgement. A similar thought experiment in regards to dampening traumatic memories was described by Adam J

The Braindead Megaphone (185 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

"The Great Divider" "Thought Experiment" (originally published as "Advice from an Old Fart, in the Form of a Thought Experiment" in Take My Advice, edited

Eliminative materialism (7,679 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

ineffable. They are "intrinsic" and "simple" or "unanalyzable." The first thought experiment Dennett uses to demonstrate that qualia lack the listed necessary

List of Playboy Playmates of 1958 (655 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

2017. "Valentine Vixen: Cheryl Kubert, Miss February 1958". The Thought Experiment. "Playmate data". Retrieved October 6, 2017. Zahra Norbo at Playboy

Jan Deckers (1,264 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

debate on abortion, Deckers has engaged with Judith Jarvis Thomson's thought experiment of the violinist. In an article with the title 'The right to life

Prisoner's dilemma (9,520 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

The prisoner's dilemma is a game theory thought experiment involving two rational agents, each of whom can either cooperate for mutual benefit or betray

Molecular demon (1,413 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

thermodynamics. The difference between biological molecular demons and the thought experiment of Maxwell's demon is the latter's apparent violation of the second

Eugene Wigner (5,215 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

questions about the theory of quantum mechanics, Wigner developed a thought experiment (later called Wigner's Friend paradox) to illustrate his belief that

There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom (2,666 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

concept involved building a tiny, swallowable surgical robot. As a thought experiment, he proposed developing a set of one-quarter-scale manipulator hands

Flesh Without Blood (784 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

"Flesh Without Blood" is named Rococo Basilisk, a reference to the thought experiment Roko's basilisk and the Rococo art movement. Grimes said that the

Wax (1,867 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

melting point Wax acid Wax argument, or the "ball of wax example", is a thought experiment originally articulated by Renė Descartes. Wilhelm Riemenschneider1

Hollow Earth (5,120 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

inner-Earth civilization, but that is not true. Instead, he did a thought experiment of an object dropped into a hole drilled through the center, unrelated

Steven Engel (2,630 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

DOJ would not charge Trump with a crime, making the memo akin to a "thought experiment." In May 2019, Engel issued an opinion concluding that the former

Ex Machina (film) (4,025 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

test, the film references the Chinese room thought experiment, as well as Mary's room, a thought experiment about a scientist who has studied, but never

John Stewart Bell (3,643 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Lorentz-FitzGerald body contraction Bell adapted and promoted a relativistic thought experiment which became widely known as Bell's spaceship paradox. Bell died unexpectedly

Kerolos Bahgat (1,910 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

writing in the field of psychology, as portrayed in his book The Thought Experiment for Mama's Boy, among many others. His works were published by a number

Ball (disambiguation) (671 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

of a sphere Ball of wax example, also known as the wax argument, a thought experiment by René Descartes in his Meditations on First Philosophy Boule de

Antitheism (1,112 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

proposed an altered definition of the word antitheism as part of a thought experiment. He imagines what arguments for the existence of an evil god would

Humanoid (1,990 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

its language would have sounded somewhat like bird song. Russell's thought experiment has been met with criticism from other paleontologists since the 1980s

Quantum weirdness (527 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

paradox; quantum superposition, presented in dramatic form in the thought experiment known as Schrödinger's cat; the uncertainty principle; wave–particle

Zeno machine (877 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

animation of an infinite time Turing machine based on the Thomson's lamp thought experiment. A cell alternates between 0 {\displaystyle 0} and 1 {\displaystyle

James F. Thomson (philosopher) (657 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

disprove the possibility of supertasks, he introduced Thomson's lamp, a thought experiment similar to Zeno's paradoxes. This problem involves the mathematical

Justice and the Market (2,503 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

scale. 20th century philosopher John Rawls attempted to create a thought experiment that would allow for the consideration of a societal design that is

The Prestige (film) (5,273 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

United States. Ship of Theseus – Thought experiment about identity over time Teletransportation paradox – Thought experiment on the philosophy of identity

Sheppey (play) (905 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

for a thought experiment from Allan Gibbard and William Harper's influential paper "Counterfactuals and Two Kinds of Expected Utility". The thought experiment

Tiny Colour Movies (167 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

Automobiles" "A Peripheral Character" "Shadow City" "Interlude" "Thought Experiment" "Hand-Held Skies" John Foxx – All instruments Dallas Simpson – Mastering

Hitchens's razor (1,182 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Demon-Haunted World – 1995 book by Carl Sagan Evil God Challenge – Thought experiment in philosophyPages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets

Office of Legal Counsel (2,680 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

DOJ would not charge Trump with a crime, making the memo akin to a "thought experiment." In September 2019, Engel authored an OLC opinion that the Justice

Steven Landsburg (1,427 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

faculty at the University of Rochester claimed that Landsburg's "thought experiment" was offensive and potentially dangerous, in that it called into question

The Conscious Mind (2,537 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

problem of other minds is evidence of this. Frank Jackson's famous thought experiment Mary's Room demonstrates a similar point. Upon seeing red, Mary gains

AI takeover in popular culture (5,157 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Paperclips was inspired by philosopher Nick Bostrom's paperclip maximizer thought experiment. The user plays an AI tasked to create paperclips; the game begins

Regress argument (epistemology) (1,743 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Descartes Infinite regress – Philosophical problem Münchhausen trilemma – Thought experiment used to demonstrate the impossibility of proving any truth Plato's

Atom localization (800 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

optics with increasing precision. This field finds its origins in the thought experiment by Werner Heisenberg called Heisenberg's microscope, which is commonly

Physical object (1,462 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Non-physical entity Physical model Rigid body Ship of Theseus, a thought experiment about an object's identity over time Oxford English Dictionary, "Physical

Australian philosophy (1,729 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

prominent among critics of materialism. Frank Jackson's influential thought experiment "What Mary knew" imagines a scientist who, restricted to seeing black

Galilean invariance (1,732 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

that fall freely in a gravitational field. According to Einstein's thought experiment, a man in such a cabin experiences (to a good approximation) no gravity

Relational quantum mechanics (6,803 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Note that the above scenario is directly linked to Wigner's Friend thought experiment, which serves as a prime example when understanding different interpretations

Local reference frame (325 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

centered on the laboratory in which the experiment (either real or thought experiment) is done. This is the reference frame in which the laboratory is at

Exhalation (short story) (486 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Encyclopedia of Science Fiction described it as "limpid" and an "elegant thought experiment". The California Sunday Magazine praised it as an "inventive meditation

Cosmic censorship hypothesis (1,667 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

value, outside of which the horizon would disappear. The following thought experiment is reproduced from Hartle's Gravity: Imagine specifically trying to

Anders Sandberg (954 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

2018. Zhang, Sarah (2 August 2018). "Blueberry Earth: The Delicious Thought Experiment That's Roiling Planetary Scientists". The Atlantic. Retrieved 4 November

Quantum superposition (2,471 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

displaying short descriptions of redirect targets Schrödinger's cat – Thought experiment in quantum mechanics Superposition principle – Fundamental physics

Proofs and Refutations (707 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

the following list of stages: Primitive conjecture. Proof (a rough thought-experiment or argument, decomposing the primitive conjecture into subconjectures)

Dead cat (104 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

a series of cartoons about dead cats Schrödinger's cat, a physics thought experiment involving the possibility of a cat that is both dead and alive This

Newcomb (184 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

a ball game that is a variation of volleyball Newcomb's paradox, thought experiment involving predicting the future Newcomb House (disambiguation) This

The Collapsing Empire (711 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

reviewer enjoyed Scalzi's space opera and summarized the story as a "thought experiment about the fall of civilization." As of 2017, the TV rights to The

Thinks ... (507 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

mouthpieces. Literary website Bookish Thoughts called Thinks... "a thought experiment on the nature of consciousness" even as it cautioned readers about

Schrödinger–Newton equation (3,508 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

given in our universe (see the referenced discussion about a similar thought experiment proposed by Eppley & Hannah). Nonlinear Schrödinger equation Semiclassical

Consciousness causes collapse (2,432 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

further during the 1960s. Wigner reformulated the Schrödinger's cat thought experiment as the Wigner's friend and proposed that the consciousness of an observer

Basilisk (disambiguation) (220 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

system in the David Weber novel On Basilisk Station Roko's basilisk, a thought experiment originating on the LessWrong blog Basilisk (cannon) HMAS Basilisk

Nick Fudge (841 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

on the eve of his graduate show, an act inspired by a Duchampian thought-experiment which asked "what if an artist just disappeared?" Shortly thereafter

Rudolf Schrödinger (378 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

contributions to quantum mechanics, one of which being his famous cat thought experiment. Rudolf Schrödinger was born on January 27, 1857, to a Bavarian family

Simulacrum (2,291 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

(computing) – A graphical representation of a user. Experience machine - A thought experiment put forward by Robert Nozick in his book Anarchy, State, and Utopia

Wax (disambiguation) (177 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

video editor Hair wax, a type of hairstyling product Wax argument, thought experiment Wax gourd, a large Asian fruit WAXX, an American radio station This

Relative velocity (1,922 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

assumptions about how clocks and rulers behave. (See The train-and-platform thought experiment.) To recognize that this classical model of relative motion violates

Cortical homunculus (1,406 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

at a single glance. Penfield first conceived of his homunculi as a thought experiment, and went so far as to envision an imaginary world in which the homunculi

Robin Hanson (1,253 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Tolentino described Hanson's blog post as a "flippantly dehumanizing thought experiment". A 2003 article in Fortune examined Hanson's work, noting, among

Space elevator (10,302 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

ISBN 9780151327737. Boucher, Marc (8 April 2013). "The Space Elevator: 'Thought Experiment', or Key to the Universe?". SpaceRef. Retrieved 30 May 2024. Edwards

Connectivity theorems (1,929 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the connectivity theorems. When deriving the summation theorems, a thought experiment was conducted that involved manipulating enzyme activities such that

René Descartes (15,322 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

2018 interview with Tyler Cowen, Agnes Callard described Descartes's thought experiment in the Meditations, where he encouraged a complete, systematic doubting

Transverse wave (1,827 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

of moving back and forth. It may help understanding to revisit the thought experiment with a taut string mentioned above. Notice that you can also launch

The Egg (Weir short story) (664 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

solipsism Nietzschean affirmation Original position, a philosophical thought experiment Open individualism Panpsychism Subjective idealism The Everlasting

Cobalt bomb (3,179 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

thermonuclear weapon of the size postulated by Leo Szilard's "cobalt bomb" thought experiment by extrapolating from the effects of thermonuclear weapons of smaller

Inverted spectrum (1,132 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Thought experiment

Tomb of Horrors (2,662 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

foreword: "The dungeon of the demi-lich Acererak was, for Gary, a kind of thought experiment: If an undead sorcerer really wanted to keep his tomb from being plundered

Football in Mexico (1,616 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Latin / o America. Springer. ISBN 9781137518002. Fellerath, David. "A thought experiment: What would NASL's split-season plan look like this season?". Indy

Medium (website) (4,249 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

site as having "undergone countless pivots", becoming "an endless thought experiment into what publishing on the internet could look like". In January

Barr letter (4,437 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Barr had never considered charging Trump and likened the memo to a "thought experiment"; the Department of Justice released the full memo the following week

Nuclear cross section (775 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

particular set of particles (usually viewed as a "beam and target" thought experiment where one particle or nucleus is the "target", which is typically

Steven Pippin (1,363 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Kucharek, Jan-Carlos (13 August 2020). "From bath-as-camera to camera-as-thought-experiment". www.ribaj.com. Retrieved 11 December 2023. "The Machines of Steven

Boltzmann (disambiguation) (99 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

to: 24712 Boltzmann, a main-belt asteroid the Boltzmann brain, a thought experiment Boltzmann constant Boltzmann (crater), an old lunar crater Boltzmann

DeDe Lind (480 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

"The Girls Next Door". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2009-12-17. The Thought Experiment (2010-06-16). "The Girls of Summer: DeDe Lind, Miss August 1967".

Red pill and blue pill (3,691 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

machine", the concept of a simulated reality and the brain in a vat thought experiment. The Wachowskis asked star Keanu Reeves to read three books before

The Six Million Dollar Mon (521 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

A.V. Club enjoyed the episode and gave it an A−. Ship of Theseus, thought experiment involving rebuilding an object from discarded parts Handlen, Zack

Gilbert Harman (1,019 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Notable ideas Perceptual experience has intentional content Three levels of meaning Situationist critique of virtue ethics Brain in a vat thought experiment

Neurorobotics (2,252 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

used to study simple ethical interactions, such as the classical thought experiment where there are more people than a life raft can hold, and someone

Twin (disambiguation) (261 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Peter J. Twin (born 1937), English nuclear physicist Twin paradox, a thought experiment Twin prime, a type of prime number Twin Range, a mountain range in

Liquidity preference (1,076 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Interest and Money in 1936. Gesell created a Robinson Crusoe economy thought experiment which showed that interest rates tend to exist in monetary economies

Roko (206 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Basilisk, a hypothetical future artificial intelligence posited in a thought experiment by LessWrong contributor Roko ROKO Construction, civil engineering

Deontology (3,345 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

(philosophy) – Sentences used to effect an action Plank of Carneades – Thought experiment proposed by Carneades of Cyrene Rule according to higher law – Belief

Stream of consciousness (psychology) (2,190 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Reasons and Persons, Parfit describes the teletransportation paradox thought experiment, which describes the difficulties in distinguishing one's future self

The Sand Reckoner (1,903 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

fill it. With these measurements, each grain of sand in Archimedes's thought-experiment would have been approximately 19 μm (0.019 mm) in diameter. Archimedes

Dead and Alive (209 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Dukes of Hazzard season 6, episode 14 (1984) Schrödinger's cat, a thought experiment from quantum mechanics with a cat that may be simultaneously both

Elevator paradox (physics) (356 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Thought experiment in physics

Stephen Law (529 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Christian apologists and theologians. He developed the Evil God Challenge thought experiment. The Philosophy Files 1 (2000) ISBN 1-84255-053-5 The Philosophy Files

Lev Vaidman (717 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

at Saint Petersburg University (then Leningrad University). This thought experiment, subsequently conducted in the lab, is an example of interaction-free

The Root of All Evil? (1,224 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

reject religion, Dawkins describes Bertrand Russell's celestial teapot thought experiment. In The Virus Of Faith Dawkins made a more emotional appeal. The programme

Unexpected hanging paradox (1,815 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Thought experiment in logic

Jeremy Waldron (1,549 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

non-religious and non-Kantian concept of human dignity, based on a thought experiment of leveling up all human beings to the high rank of nobility or aristocracy

Mind uploading (7,305 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

consciousness in brain simulations on the basis of the "fading qualia" thought experiment of David Chalmers. He then concludes: “If, as I argue above, a sufficiently

Western philosophy (11,319 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

from arguing over the first principles of human nature through the thought experiment of what the world would look like without society, a scenario referred

Stenonychosaurus (3,229 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

language would have sounded somewhat like bird song. However, Russell's thought experiment has been met with criticism from other paleontologists since the 1980s

Allen Steele (941 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

1997–2004 Steele, Allen M. (September 2014). "Tomorrow Through the Past". Thought Experiment. Asimov's Science Fiction. 38 (9): 10–16. Arkwright Sakers, Don (April

Bootstrapping (3,490 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

displaying short descriptions of redirect targets Münchhausen trilemma – Thought experiment used to demonstrate the impossibility of proving any truth Neurathian

Human Compatible (1,133 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

tend to adopt so-called "common sense" moral values. In Russell's thought experiment about a geoengineering robot that "asphyxiates humanity to deacidify

Thomson's lamp (788 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

The thought experiment concerns a lamp that is toggled on and off with increasing frequency.

Hayy ibn Yaqdhan (1,859 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

one of his allegories and drawing inspiration from his Floating Man thought experiment, but transforming the subject's sensory deprivation to social isolation

Hard problem of consciousness (12,602 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

follows with necessity from physics). Levine illustrates this with a thought experiment: Suppose that humanity were to encounter an alien species, and suppose

NPC (meme) (2,323 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

List of Internet phenomena Philosophical zombie – a philosophical thought experiment that imagines a being which appears to display consciousness but is

The Big Bang Theory season 1 (1,720 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

each seeks advice from Sheldon, who uses the "Schrödinger's cat" thought experiment to explain that the date has both "good" and "bad" possible outcomes

Subject and object (philosophy) (2,882 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Subject (grammar) Subjectivity and objectivity (philosophy) Swamp man – thought experiment in Donald Davidson's 1987 paper "Knowing One Own's Mind" Transcendental

Turtles all the way down (3,121 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Russian nested wooden toy created in 1890 Münchhausen trilemma – Thought experiment used to demonstrate the impossibility of proving any truth Primum

Free fall (3,244 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

close to the Earth and orbiting objects is best illustrated by the thought experiment, Newton's cannonball. The motion of two objects moving radially towards

Chad Orzel (800 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

What is the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle?,Schrödinger's cat: A thought experiment in quantum mechanics,Einstein's brilliant mistake: Entangled states

Metaphilosophy (3,316 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

counterfactuals (or subjunctive conditionals) that are specific to the thought experiment or example in question. A prominent question in metaphilosophy is

Strange loop (1,957 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

strip – Non-orientable surface with one edge Münchhausen trilemma – Thought experiment used to demonstrate the impossibility of proving any truth Ontological

Arrow of time (3,850 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

in an open system, entropy can decrease with time. An interesting thought experiment would be to ask: "if entropy was increased in an open system, would

Heisenbug (1,405 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

schrödinbug or schroedinbug (named after Erwin Schrödinger and his thought experiment) is a bug that manifests itself in running software after a programmer

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60, 1996 Viimeisistä ajoista: Ajatusleikki (On the End Times: A Thought Experiment.), in Finnish, 1997 Logiikka ja humanismi (Logic and Humanism), in

Space elevator safety (1,087 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

fiction Clarke, Arthur C. (12 August 2003). "The Space Elevator: 'Thought Experiment', or Key to the Universe? (Part 3)". The Space Elevator Reference

The Devil Judge (6,428 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

America treating doctors' advice as fake news, he decided to do a "thought experiment" similar to Black Mirror and V for Vendetta about what the world of

Richard Bentall (1,665 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

patients experiencing an at risk mental state for psychosis. In a 1992 thought experiment, Bentall proposed that happiness might be classified as a psychiatric

Manna (4,245 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

by their wives. Robert Nozick references "manna from heaven" in a thought experiment about distributive justice. In a modern botanical context, manna is

Newton's law of universal gravitation (3,839 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

trajectory is a conic section in the orbital plane Newton's cannonball – Thought experiment about gravity Newton's laws of motion – Laws in physics about force

Millennium Falcon (4,182 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Falcon on Wookieepedia, a Star Wars wiki Millennium Falcon Notes: information for model builders How Fast is the Millennium Falcon?: a thought experiment

Flux linkage (864 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

exists independently of the presence of the coil. Furthermore, in a thought experiment with a coil of N {\displaystyle N} turns, where each turn forms a

Satellite (6,426 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

possibility of an artificial satellite was Newton's cannonball, a thought experiment by Isaac Newton to explain the motion of natural satellites, in his

Heinz dilemma (280 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Ethical thought experiment

Przekładaniec (1,219 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

one thing until it turns into a different thing Ship of Theseus, a thought experiment that raises the question of whether an object that has had all of

Haunter (film) (1,011 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Nicolas Rapold of The New York Times wrote, "the film's frazzled thought experiment becomes an adequate yarn." Annlee Ellingson of the Los Angeles Times

TNT equivalent (3,443 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

US Forest Service. August 25, 2021. Retrieved April 23, 2022. "The thought experiment: What would happen if the supervolcano under Yellowstone erupted?"

Interest rate (4,484 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

proposed by an anonymous student of Greg Mankiw, though more as a thought experiment than a genuine proposal. Both the European Central Bank starting in

Minima Moralia (950 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

had produced fascism, reasoning possibly inspired by Nietzsche's thought experiment of the eternal recurrence. Redemption would be a final break with

Quantum vacuum state (2,755 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

temperature to absolute zero, one produces in a Gedankenexperiment [thought experiment] the quantum vacuum state." According to Fowler & Guggenheim (1939/1965)

Type physicalism (2,321 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

objection comes from Frank Jackson in the form of the Mary's room thought experiment. Let us suppose, Jackson suggests, that a particularly brilliant super-scientist

Computational theory of mind (2,916 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

computational theory of mind comes from philosopher John Searle. In his thought experiment known as the Chinese room, Searle attempts to refute the claims that

Anne Fausto-Sterling (1,532 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

a 1993 paper titled "The Five Sexes", Fausto-Sterling laid out a thought experiment considering an alternative model of gender containing five sexes:

Ken Levine (game developer) (2,045 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Brian (October 9, 2013). "Ken Levine on his secret post-BioShock 'thought experiment'". Polygon. Retrieved January 10, 2022. Wigham, Chris (July 26, 2011)

Fish! Philosophy (1,439 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

adding: To grasp just how presumptuous Fish! really is, just try a thought experiment: imagine management’s reaction if the circumstances were reversed

Paper clip (3,206 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

assistant in Microsoft Office Universal Paperclips - a game based on a thought experiment where the user plays the role of an AI programmed to produce paperclips

Swamp Thing (disambiguation) (191 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

character in the film Con Air Swamp (disambiguation) Swampman, a thought experiment in philosophy Man-Thing, a Marvel Comics character This disambiguation

Popper's experiment (3,638 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

of the 'observer'. While the EPR argument was always meant to be a thought experiment, put forward to shed light on the intrinsic paradoxes of QM, Popper

Reversible computing (2,427 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

interpretation of the second law of thermodynamics Maxwell's demon – Thought experiment of 1867 Reverse computation Reversible cellular automaton – Cellular

Probability amplitude (3,522 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

"Momentum Transfer to a Free Floating Double Slit: Realization of a Thought Experiment from the Einstein-Bohr Debates" (PDF). Physical Review Letters. 111

Self-replication (3,106 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

matter Artificial life – Field of study Astrochicken – Astrophysical thought experiment by Freeman Dyson Autopoiesis – System capable of producing itself

Computerchemist (1,136 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

Alongside the collaborations, a further two solo albums Parallel Thought Experiment and Where the Clouds Touch the Sky were also released in 2021-2022

Genesis and Catastrophe: A True Story (276 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Jonathan Liebesman in 2000.[unreliable source] Killing baby Hitler, a thought experiment in ethics "Home". Roald Dahl Fans. "Genesis & Catastrophe". 17 May

Northwest Passage (Fringe) (2,218 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

breakdown at the supermarket "came largely out of nowhere. It was a thought experiment that took on a life of its own." Miller continued that at the time

Schrödinger's paradox (72 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

may refer to two ideas by Erwin Schrödinger: Schrödinger's cat, a thought experiment concerning quantum superposition Schrödinger's paradox, the paradox

William Bennett (2,495 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Bennett responded to critics of his statement by saying, in part: A thought experiment about public policy, on national radio, should not have received the

The Life You Can Save (2,039 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

also have over $1m of annualised pledges already committed. Singer's thought-experiment about the drowning child featured in the book formed the basis of

Derek Parfit (4,025 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

barely worth living.": 388 Parfit illustrates this with a simple thought experiment: imagine a choice between two possible futures. In A, 10 billion people

Absent qualia (756 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

argument is often criticised due to its abstractility. The zombie thought experiment is intended to challenge the functionalist view of the mind by highlighting

Natalie Villalobos (608 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

she co-led the Signtific Lab, an open source massive multi-player "thought experiment" platform for scientists and technologists to help forecast future

Dome (disambiguation) (504 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

designed by ASTRON and IBM Zurich Research Laboratory Norton's dome, a thought experiment concerning causality in Newtonian mechanics Dome, colloquial term

Paper clip (disambiguation) (149 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

paperclip, trading experiment Paperclip maximizer, Nick Bostrom's thought experiment about existential risk of artificial intelligence Universal Paperclips

Lump of labour fallacy (1,023 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

employer's diminished labour needs. In an editorial in The Economist a thought experiment is proposed in which old people leave the workforce in favour of young

Attributes of God in Christianity (3,925 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

contradiction is known as the problem of evil. The evil God challenge is a thought experiment that explores whether the hypothesis that God might be evil has symmetrical

Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs (649 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

due to a lack of confirming physical evidence, is "essentially a thought experiment", and that the book's "greatest reward" is actually "the gift of perspective"

With great power comes great responsibility (2,982 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

James (March 20, 2019). "Spider-Man: Life Story Offers a Fascinating Thought Experiment for Peter Parker's Oldest Mantra". io9. Archived from the original

Heavenly Delusion (3,184 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

gradation of spiritual sexuality. The school is depicted as a kind of thought experiment in a world where sexual elements are abolished. In the book Critical

Thomas Elsaesser (1,815 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

University Press) European Cinema and Continental Philosophy: film as thought experiment. (2018, London: Bloomsbury) The Mind-Game Film: Distributed Agency

InterWorking Labs (1,034 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

testing. The Maxwell products are named after Maxwell's demon, a thought experiment by 19th-century physicist James Clerk Maxwell. Maxwell's demon demonstrated

Gene-centered view of evolution (3,873 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

— Dawkins, 1982, chapter 3 Green-beard effects gained their name from a thought-experiment first presented by Bill Hamilton and then popularized and given its

Limited principle of omniscience (699 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

of constructive mathematics. The term "omniscience" comes from a thought experiment regarding how a mathematician might tell which of the two cases in

Artificial intelligence (28,658 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

room argument: Searle (1980). Searle's original presentation of the thought experiment., Searle (1999). Discussion: Russell & Norvig (2021, pp. 985), McCorduck

Dmitri Konovalov (340 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the vapor, are equal. Konovalov came up with the theory based on a thought experiment and then demonstrated it through experiments. Konovalov's second rule

Schrödinger (disambiguation) (219 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

quantum mechanics. Schrödinger may also refer to: Schrödinger's cat, a thought experiment devised by Schrödinger that illustrates what he saw as the problem

Arcade Fire (9,390 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

throughout the books, the national anthem of the fascist Capitol. So as a thought experiment, we tried to write what that might sound like. It's like the Capitol's

Standard German (3,673 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

demonym of Frankfurt am Main Gedankenexperiment gedankenexperiment thought experiment Geländesprung geländesprung ski jumping for distance on alpine equipment

Starstruck (company) (297 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Retrieved 2020-12-09. Phil Salin ... a cofounder of StarStruck, uses this thought experiment to drive home a main point: A dramatic reduction in the cost of getting

Schrödinger (disambiguation) (219 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

quantum mechanics. Schrödinger may also refer to: Schrödinger's cat, a thought experiment devised by Schrödinger that illustrates what he saw as the problem

Nuclear holocaust (5,278 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Terrorism involving nuclear material or weapons Silurian hypothesis – Thought experiment to assess ability to detect evidence of a prior advanced civilization

Anthology of Interest I (1,505 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

ambition. On the whole, 'Anthology' plays out like a moderately engaging thought experiment; certainly not a complete waste, but nothing that justifies the existence

Criteria of truth (2,012 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

which there are more than two truth values Münchhausen trilemma – Thought experiment used to demonstrate the impossibility of proving any truth Pluralist

Ridley Scott (11,272 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

artificial intelligence known as the Turing test and the Chinese Room Thought Experiment, respectively, in the chapter titled "What's Wrong with Building Replicants"

Post-capitalism (3,919 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

2024-02-23. Hickel, Jason (September 23, 2020). "Degrowth and MMT: a thought experiment". jasonhickel.org. Retrieved July 11, 2023. MMT proposals align elegantly

Heinrich Bruns (604 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

envisioned as a world-spanning net. Satellite geodesy turned this thought experiment into a reality with the development of the GPS. Über die Perioden

Break It Down Again (1,072 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

physics, has acquired a cult status. Schrodinger's Cat is a famous thought experiment attempting to clarify some of the vagaries of quantum physics. This

Identity of indiscernibles (2,356 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

an argument, a fallacious use of this principle Ship of Theseus – Thought experiment about identity over time Structural type system – Class of type systems

Camille Flammarion (3,474 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

would have no noticeable effect. However, he also indulged in a "thought experiment" about what might happen if it did inject various gases into the atmosphere

Robert Nozick (4,035 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

into an experience machine limits us to a man-made reality. Another thought experiment Nozick proposes is the utility monster, designed to show that average

Machine ethics (4,318 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

chatterbot that learned to repeat racist and sexually charged tweets. One thought experiment focuses on a Genie Golem with unlimited powers presenting itself to

Pink Floyd (21,574 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

political themes and that of Orwell's Animal Farm. Animals begins with a thought experiment, which asks: "If you didn't care what happened to me. And I didn't

Time (14,106 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

noticeable in a mass-dense object. A famous example of time dilation is a thought experiment of a subject approaching the event horizon of a black hole. As a consequence

Work function (3,661 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

such as Anderson's rule and the Schottky–Mott rule, are based on the thought experiment of two materials coming together in vacuum, such that the surfaces

Eleanor Arnason (1,791 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

love was normal and heterosexual love was abnormal, sort of as a thought experiment. And because contemporary Americans have very rigid ideas of what

Black hole (18,732 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

that there are no paths that lead away from the black hole. In a thought experiment, a distant observer can imagine clocks near a black hole which would

A Number (2,322 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

philosophical questions without ever feeling didactic. A Number is no cold thought experiment, but a quiet rumination on human nature". Dineen wrote that Salter's

Efficient-market hypothesis (6,282 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

until the information is no longer useful for trading. Note that this thought experiment does not necessarily imply that stock prices are unpredictable. For

Della Moneta (588 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

school of economics by well over a century. He describes a sort of thought experiment, in which a government would attempt to trade or confiscate through

List of The Hunger Games characters (19,953 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

drunk during an assignment to get him to give him all his ideas for a thought experiment, this assignment later morphed into the Hunger Games. Traumatized

Slender Man (6,072 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

(21 August 2013). "How the Internet's creepiest meme mutated from thought experiment to Hollywood blockbuster". The Daily Dot. Archived from the original

Celtic union (1,088 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

July 23, 2020. Retrieved 2022-06-12. says, Austen Lynch (2021-09-25). "Thought Experiment: A Celtic Union". The Glasgow Guardian. Retrieved 2022-06-12.

Venedic language (1,963 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Wenedyk Created by Jan van Steenbergen Date 2002 Setting and usage A thought experiment in the alternate history, Ill Bethisad, if Latin had replaced Polish's

Principia Ethica (1,660 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

example, the beauty of mountains, rivers and sunsets. Moore proposes a thought experiment, the "method of isolation", as a test to determine whether something

Redundancy (engineering) (2,582 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

version of the Byzantine agreement protocol Two Generals' Problem – Thought experiment Degeneracy – Process in biology Redundancy Management Technique for

Ship of Harkinian (1,429 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Time. The title of the project is an allusion to the philosophical thought experiment Ship of Theseus, as well as the name of the King from The Legend of

Blind men and an elephant (3,569 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Theseus, a 2012 Indian philosophical drama named after the eponymous thought experiment, also references the parable.[citation needed] Natalie Merchant sang

Art (14,332 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

value of Hirst's and Emin's work. In 1998, Arthur Danto, suggested a thought experiment showing that "the status of an artifact as work of art results from

Temperature (13,012 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

temperature List of cities by average temperature Maxwell's demon – Thought experiment of 1867 Orders of magnitude (temperature) – Comparison of a wide range

Novikov self-consistency principle (3,446 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

avoid the issue of free will by employing a potentially paradoxical thought experiment involving a billiard ball sent back in time through a wormhole. In