Thought experiments are a way to craft free experiences in our mind, designed to answer a question or validate a hypothesis we have about human nature without imposing any demands on us for physical ...

Here’s a thought experiment. You’re a pediatrician. A child walks into your consulting room accompanied by a concerned mother. You do tests, you observe. Fairly quickly you arrive at a diagnosis.

Physicists are fond of Gedankenexperimente—thought experiments that are difficult or impossible to perform in the real world. Schrödinger’s cat is a well-known example of a thought experiment, used to ...

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The Ship of Theseus thought experiment is a long-standing problem in philosophy that has been debated for centuries. This philosophical debate has been brought back into public discourse by the rise ...

Is ChatGPT a philosopher? Recently, I asked it to weigh in on some of the biggest philosophical debates – the Trolley Problem ...

The Kansas City Chiefs are 5-5 and in a fight to make the playoffs after dropping their Week 11 game to the Denver Broncos.On the latest episode of "New Heights," after Travis Kelce vented about the ...

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Releasing a movie called Civil War in this election year is certainly one way to grab headlines. Surprisingly, though, Alex Garland's ambitious new thriller largely sidesteps the politics of the ...