Miselni eksperiment

Predstavljajmo si človeka (naj mu bo ime Lee), ki se je rodil v Severni Koreji. Življenjska loterija ga je postavila v državo ekstremne represije in revščine. Lee se vsak dan boji za svoje življenje in njegova družina komaj preživi.

A Man-chine — Thought Experiment

Sometimes a good approach to thinking about a problem is to think about it in a context where you’re not part of it. This makes it easier to reason about it rationally. And even practically, most of us are a lot better at giving advice to others than to ourselves.

experimental religion

Experimental Religion belongs properly in Philosophy of Religion because not only has it not yet emerged as an empirical science, it should not be permitted to do so.

Experimental religion, as a branch of Philosophy of Religion, has tenuous relations with both Theodicy and…

A nascent idea for another currency: Goodwill

First there was the barter system. The advantage: you can’t have infinite goods and most goods perished if not used or lost value. The disadvantage: difficult to store most goods and difficult to value things exactly.

What-If: Not Google?

What if Larry Page and Sergey Brin had never succeeded with Google?

Seriously. Consider it for a moment. Put history in context.

Where would we be?