Which One of These 10 Thought Experiments Is Your Favorite?
Which One of These 10 Thought Experiments Is Your Favorite?
I love reading on philosophy, psychology and spirituality/meditation. These are probably my favorite things to do long with getting involved with technology and innovation. I like to be efficient. So Instead of linking random though experiments and asking you to pick one, I'm just going to link the best article/collection of thought experiments I could find on the Internet.
Brief Descriptions of The Thought Experiments
I could have made this a multiple choice poll. But I waned to keep things more interested and spicy. Good Luck!
- The Trolley Problem
- The Cow in the Field
- The Ticking Time Bomb
- Einstein’s Light Beam
- The Ship of Theseus
- Galileo’s Gravity Experiment
- Monkeys and Typewriters
- The Chinese Room
- Schrodinger’s Cat
- Brain in a Vat
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Voted for Einstein’s Light Beam.
Voted for The Trolley Problem.
Voted for None of the Above
Its like this, imagine you knew that the earth was shaped like a donut, but in a curved spacial way, so that anyone on the inside saw it as flat.
What do you think of any "thought experiment" about flat vs ball earth?
They just don't make any sense.
All of these thought experiments are like that.
The solution to each is "None of the above".
However, i believe that it was important to think on them. That the thinking, the flexing of your mind muscle, is really important. Part of you already knows the answer, so it really isn't about finding the truth, its about getting stronger, and exploring the truth.
Exactly! It's like a workout for your brain and in this day and age people really need more of it. Science fictions and even horror fiction used to do this. But these days Sci-fi is basically Marvel and horror is basically jump scare.
Yeah, horror is pathetic these days.
Even 10 years ago... that invisible man and all those people running around with cans of spray paint... pathetic.
I would lock that guy in a room with any one of several of my friends and he wouldn't come out alive.
All the fear shown was the people doing it to themselves.
Blah.
Voted for The Trolley Problem.
Voted for The Trolley Problem.
Voted for The Trolley Problem.
Voted for
Voted for Einstein’s Light Beam.
Voted for Galileo’s Gravity Experiment.
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