Thought experiment

The “Chinese Nation” thought experiment by Ned Block is also know as the China Brain thought experiment, states what would possibly happen if each Chinese person were told to stimulate an action using only one part of the brain, to be more specific a neuron, through a cellphone and see if that would simulate axons in the exact same way that our brains actually function. The reason they used the Chinese population is because our brains have almost one hundred billion neurons and the population of

reading got me thinking deeper about other things in the world that I never would relate to these experiments if they were not self-inquiry experiments. For example for me one of the in the first experiment proved this very well, the experiment was called the “Thought Experiment: Positive Group Distinctiveness In your Own Life” like I said I never really think about myself that deeply like this experiment required me too, usually when I think about myself I only think of the sallow things like what’s

A Thought Experiment through My Literary Past I never really had a chance to connect with books and reading on a very personal level as a child. They always seemed impractical to me: mainly fiction books. Don’t get me wrong or anything. I kind of got the idea of why students were made to read fiction books in school: to help increase empathy, vocabulary, and imagination, but I never really go into it. My family never enforced reading for me as strictly as other kids parents did for them, but emphasized

Fiction as a Thought Experiment Science fiction is a fairly new genre compared to many other literature styles but is one of the most relevant and evolving literary classifications. It is a huge genre that encompasses many different types of stories such as dystopian, utopian, superheroes, and more. Science fiction is primarily used as a reflection of society as well as a forecast of what current society could become. Science fiction is argued to be a “Gedankenexperiment,” or thought experiment, because

interesting thought experiment conducted by philosopher Daniel Dennett is used to stimulate philosophical possibilities about personal identity. Dennett is to retrieve a radioactive warhead, and must have his brain taken out for the period of the excursion due to the possibility of damaging his brain tissues. Upon wakening from the surgery, the underlying question appears for the first time: “Where am I?” – In the brain, or out here in my body, looking at my brain? Throughout the experiment, he considers

William’s Two Thought Experiment I. Introduction In his paper “The Self and The Future”, Bernard Williams presented two thought experiment with a body swap theme. He first present a body swap in the same vein that Locke’s present his the Prince and the Cobbler thought experiment, that two people have seemingly switched psychological attributes after a certain time t. This example makes it seems apparent, as Williams suggested, that the two have switched bodies. He then presented a second thought experiment

“Cinematic Thought Experiments of the Living Dead” Philosophical conceptions of consciousness represented through the zombie film The zombies that George R. Romero showcases in Night of the Living Dead (1968) now dominate the film industry as the prototype for the undead: the mindless corpse that is void of its prior consciousness. And the preferred food source of the undead has become like law for any pop-culture universe about zombies—even undead superheroes will eat people in the comic books

The Dr. Malgenius thought experiment is a story about skepticism. It starts out with you being in a terrible car accident. The only thing Dr. Malgenius wants is your brain because it is unscathed. He takes it and hooks it up to a super computer that generates a virtual world for you to live in. you are now in a vat. The real thought here is whether or not you the reader right now are in a vat. The question more or less is “is this the real world or virtual?”. The point of the story is that if you

John Searle's thought experiment in paper “Minds, brains and programs” from 1980 is one of the most recognisable and broadly accredited critiques of artificial intelligence (AI) - an idea that computers are (or some day will be) able to think. Researchers in AI field often make a claim that our mental activity can be compared to a computer following a program. In such a view human brains do nothing more but simply process information on a massive scale. The most important question that Searle wants

Tess Martin PHI 2630-009 (Fall 2017) October 17, 2017 985 Words Consequentialism The Trolley Case is an ethical thought experiment that seeks to find the “right” solution in killing people. This thought experiment explains that there is a train coming down the tracks on course to run right into five people. You stand next to a lever which can switch the tracks so that only one person will die. The only options you have are to do nothing and allow five people to die, or pull the lever so that only