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Philosophy Definitions

Transportation And The Self

Who are you? Normally, this seems a straightforward question, but the malfunctioning transporter can make us re-evaluate what it is to be "I".
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Time Travellers - Where Are They?

One very simple question, perhaps not a fully fledged thought experiment, is with regards time travel....
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The Plant That Doesn't Want To Be Eaten - Thought Experiment

"I think this would change the mind of those who think it is morally preferable to eat plants to animals", Simon declared, and everyone round the...
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The Physical Clone

What makes you the same person at time t as you were at t - 1? Is having the same physical presence enough?...
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The Meaningless Life - Thought Experiment

Sissy was feeling pretty bored today. He wished he had kept his mouth shut five years ago when he was cheeky to the emperor. And it had cost...
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The Game

The fact that we now know that there are billions and billions of other stars in the universe, no doubt with many millions of planets that can...
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The Experience Machine

This is a thought experiment that forces us to examine the question "does only conscious experience ultimately matter" and also brings into stark...
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The Crapulent Experimenter

(The Experimenter Having a Hang-over) The Thought Experiment Illustrating a Situation with Researches of a Microcosm....
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The Chinese Room

You enter a room, with a division down the middle, and a small slot in the centre. As a mono-lingual english speaker, you are told that this room...
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The Brain In A Vat

Imagine that you are nothing more than a brain in a vat, being fed sensory inputs left right and centre by a team of mad, or very clever, scientists....
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The Big Freeze - Thought Experiment

Occupants of Zelta Gamma 275 were puzzled. This small blue planet they looked at in the Milky Way seemed to freeze over completely every...
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Society Without Lies: Thought Experiment

Johnno sat there nice and smug, his feet up on the table sipping a warm mug of tea and dunking a biscuit. At last policing and justice would be...
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Planning For The Future Is Pointless - Thought Experiment

There was so much pressure on everyone these days to always think about the future....
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Memories Of The Past

Many people believe that they have had previous lives, and cite experiences and memories they believe they could not have got from this life...
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Life Will Be Fair And Just - Thought Experiment

It was a good day for the citizens of new earth. They were about to take their places on the new planet that had been terraformed and they all were excited about what to do....
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