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The philosophical work of Stefano Gualeni, for example, focuses on the use of virtual worlds to materialize thought experiments and to playfully negotiate philosophical ideas. [68] His arguments were originally presented in his 2015 book Virtual Worlds as Philosophical Tools .
Roko's basilisk is a thought experiment which states that an otherwise benevolent artificial superintelligence in the future would be incentivized to create a virtual reality simulation to torture anyone who knew of its potential existence but did not directly contribute to its advancement or development, in order to incentivize said advancement.
Thought experiments in philosophy of mind (20 P) Pages in category "Thought experiments in philosophy" The following 42 pages are in this category, out of 42 total.
The Polish science-fiction writer Stanisław Lem described the same problem in the mid-twentieth century. He put it in writing in his philosophical text Dialogs in 1957. . Similarly, in Lem's Star Diaries ("Fourteenth Voyage") of 1957, the hero visits a planet and finds himself recreated from a backup record, after his death from a meteorite strike, which on this planet is a very commonplace proc
A thought experiment, ... Thought experiments in philosophy (2 C, 42 P) Thought experiments in physics (3 C, 52 P) Pages in category "Thought experiments"
Pages in category "Thought experiments in philosophy of mind" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
The Ship of Theseus, also known as Theseus's Paradox, is a paradox and a common thought experiment about whether an object is the same object after having all of its original components replaced over time, typically one after the other.
Pages in category "Thought experiments in ethics" The following 40 pages are in this category, out of 40 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.