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Showing posts with label thought experiment. Show all posts

Showing posts with label thought experiment. Show all posts

Monday, 12 August 2024

The Distressed Spider and Intervention: A Thought Experiment

By Keith Tidman To intervene, or not to intervene? Philosopher Thomas Nagel set the stage for a curious thought experiment. Nagel describe...

Monday, 15 July 2024

Are We Alone in the Universe, or Not? And Does It Matter?

Peering through Saturn’s rings, the Cassini probe caught a glimpse of a faraway planet and its moon. At a distance of just under 900 million...

Monday, 3 April 2023

The Chinese Room Experiment ... and Today’s AI Chatbots

By Keith Tidman I t was back in 1980 that the American philosopher John Searle formulated the so-called ‘Chinese room thought experiment’ ...

Monday, 31 October 2022

Beetle in a Box: A Thought Experiment

By Keith Tidman L et’s hypothesise that everyone in a community has a box containing a ‘beetle’. Each person can peer into only his or her b...

Monday, 21 March 2022

Would You Plug Into Nozick’s ‘Experience Machine’?

Clockwork Eyes by Michael Ryan By Keith Tidman Life may have emotionally whipsawed you. Maybe to the extent that you begin to imagine how ...

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