Thought experiments are a way to craft free experiences in our mind, designed to answer a question or validate a hypothesis we have about human nature without imposing any demands on us for physical ...

Is ChatGPT a philosopher? Recently, I asked it to weigh in on some of the biggest philosophical debates – the Trolley Problem, the Ship of Theseus, and Brain in a Vat. Not just for fun, but because AI ...

The Ship of Theseus thought experiment is a long-standing problem in philosophy that has been debated for centuries. This philosophical debate has been brought back into public discourse by the rise ...

What form might deglobalization take? Geopolitical analyst Peter Zeihan, who imagines the end of globalization in every single one of his books, offers here some invaluable guidance. It will be a ...

One use of mathematical models of epidemics is thought experiments to aid scientists in reasoning from premise to conclusion in complex systems. Quite a few models of the Covid-19 pandemic have now ...

What went wrong with Sino-American relations? American analysts and policymakers agree that something did. As James Steinberg, the former deputy secretary of state, wrote last year, “There are few ...

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