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Gedankenexperiment - definition and meaning
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A standard device used throughout the book is the "Gedankenexperiment " where we are asked to imagine some more or less fantastic eventuality as a way of challenging and testing our common sense and theoretical convictions: What if ... your brain was transferred to another body, your brain was split in two, you were a brain in a vat, the information in your brain was put into some other medium; what if your brain were separated from your body but still controlled it, what if inside your head were tiny conscious demons, etc.?
The Myth of the Computer Searle, John R. 1982
Penrose tended to argue that models should be developed to explain everything (including Schrödinger's cat Gedankenexperiment ) in order to understand reality.
Are Changes Brewing and How Does the Mind Fit In? 2008
And, no decoherence model would be complete without explaining the Schrödinger's cat Gedankenexperiment .
Are Changes Brewing and How Does the Mind Fit In? 2008
And, no decoherence model would be complete without explaining the Schrödinger's cat Gedankenexperiment .
Are Changes Brewing and How Does the Mind Fit In? 2008
Bradford: That's why the Gedankenexperiment takes place on another planet uninhabited by humans.
The Memory Hole 2005
A hundred years ago, French mathematician Émile Borel suggested this particular Gedankenexperiment as a means of envisioning events of close to infinite improbability.
dustbury.com » Meanwhile on the tapioca tundra 2007
The Gedankenexperiment the thought experiment that Hegel's idealistic philosophy could cause real violent political repercussions might be considered excessive.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Franz-Stefan Gady 2011
It is worth conducting a ` Gedankenexperiment 'as to what would happen if Britain abolished sterling at, say, 12 AM this morning.
Telegraph Blogs 2009
Gedankenexperiment : a new violation of Bell's Inequalities,” Physical Review Letters, 49: 91 “ 94.
Bell's Theorem Shimony, Abner 2009
In Symposium on the Foundations of Modern Physics: 50 Years of the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Gedankenexperiment , Pekka Lahti and Peter Mittelstaedt, eds.
Scientific Blogging 2009
chelster commented on the word Gedankenexperiment
Discussed in Howard Rheingold's They Have a Word for It (1988), where it is defined as "thought-experiment."
October 11, 2011