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Quantum mechanics is weird. When you think you have reached the bottom of its weirdness, you always discover a new subbasement with even weirder stuff. The number one hater of thi ...

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 ...

A near-100-year-old debate between the theoretical physicists Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr has finally been settled—and not in the former’s favor. A team of physicists in China have realized a ...

Think about it. There may be no greater engine of transformation than the human brain. And throughout history, thought experiments have been the silent engines of intellectual progress, driving ...

The faster you move, the stranger time becomes. By imagining how light travels to two people moving at different speeds, Einstein showed that time isn’t absolute. His thought experiment revealed that ...

In J.D. Vance’s interview with Johnathan Karl last Sunday, Vance referred to his policy decisions as a “thought experiment.” George Carlin posthumously has another one for his euphemisms. Crazy, ...