Is ChatGPT a philosopher? Recently, I asked it to weigh in on some of the biggest philosophical debates – the Trolley Problem ...

"If this is not enough warning to make you stop wanting to know more, then you deserve what you get," Roko added.

He called these scenarios Gedankenexperiments, which is German for thought experiments. Despite the name, Einstein's mental exercises incorporated data from actual experiments. Here are a few ...

René Descartes said the only thing we can be certain about is that we think. But what is the nature of thoughts? Philosophers ...

There is literally nothing good to talk about. It is in these moments where we can run through some fascinating thought experiments. So, here is a simple question: should the Texans trade Laremy ...

As the United States and China go head-to-head in an ongoing trade war, RaboResearch conducted a thought experiment to see ...

This means that they cannot be answered simply by giving facts or information. A concept is the object of a thought, not something that is present to the senses. The word “empirical” means “gained ...

Let’s do a thought experiment. Let’s pretend that everything new that we’re doing is actually worse for our kids than ...

Yet the traditional interpretation of the ‘simulated universe’ thought experiment is one in which we – including our brains and bodies – are just data zipping about in a hyper-advanced ...