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Psychological Experiments to Boost Your Intelligence

Here are 4 psychological experiments, what was learned from them, and how you can incorporate them into your life to become smarter than anyone else.

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Perspectival Thought Experiments: A Critical Analysis

This article criticizes what it calls perspectival thought experiments, which require subjects to mentally simulate a perspective before making judgments from within it. Examples include Judith Thoms...

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In philosophy, the brain in a vat (BIV; alternately known as brain in a jar) is a scenario used in a variety of thought experiments intended to draw out certain…

In philosophy, the brain in a vat (BIV; alternately known as brain in a jar) is a scenario used in a variety of thought experiments intended to draw out certain features of human conceptions of knowledge, reality, truth, mind, consciousness, and meaning. So what happens when the BIV reads, understands and quotes Descartes? With #transhumanist applications close at hand the BIV thought experiments might soon be more related to science than to fiction.

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