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Here are 4 psychological experiments, what was learned from them, and how you can incorporate them into your life to become smarter than anyone else.
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A weird thought experiment has shaken up the world of quantum physics by calling into question our assumptions about how the world works.
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This Test Will Tell You If You’re Lying to Yourself | Big Think
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It’s time to take your brain out for a walk.
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This rice experiment is proof the power of positivity alters our reality and conversely, the power of negative thinking. See scientific proof
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This article criticizes what it calls perspectival thought experiments, which require subjects to mentally simulate a perspective before making judgments from within it. Examples include Judith Thoms...
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People's lives are not a thought experiment.
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Today is: PI day; In 1794 Eli Whitney is granted a patent for the cotton gin; On this day in 1879, the year Michael became the Time Spirit, Albert Einstein was born; in 1681 Georg Philipp Telemann …
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A friend dropped this one on me the other day— Imagine this: A powerfully magical, but very dickish witch decides to cast a spell on all of humanity. With a single swoop of her wand,...
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From "Thompson's violinist" to the "Experience Machine," these thought experiments will throw your mind for a loop.
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If its assumptions are correct, the controversial thought experiment could force us to revise what we thought we knew about quantum mechanics.
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In philosophy, the brain in a vat (BIV; alternately known as brain in a jar) is a scenario used in a variety of thought experiments intended to draw out certain features of human conceptions of knowledge, reality, truth, mind, consciousness, and meaning. So what happens when the BIV reads, understands and quotes Descartes? With #transhumanist applications close at hand the BIV thought experiments might soon be more related to science than to fiction.
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Do you feel frustrated with your eating or your body? Ever wish that you could just snap your fingers and get rid of extra pudge in your belly, or wiggle in your thighs?
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The classic thought experiment gets a second life as an elaborate running joke.
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