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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.?
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And, no decoherence model would be complete without explaining the Schrödinger's cat Gedankenexperiment.
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Penrose tended to argue that models should be developed to explain everything (including Schrödinger's cat Gedankenexperiment) in order to understand reality.
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Bradford: That's why the Gedankenexperiment takes place on another planet uninhabited by humans.
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A hundred years ago, French mathematician Émile Borel suggested this particular Gedankenexperiment as a means of envisioning events of close to infinite improbability.
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The Gedankenexperiment the thought experiment that Hegel's idealistic philosophy could cause real violent political repercussions might be considered excessive.
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It is worth conducting a ` Gedankenexperiment 'as to what would happen if Britain abolished sterling at, say, 12 AM this morning.
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Gedankenexperiment: a new violation of Bell's Inequalities,” Physical Review Letters, 49: 91 “ 94.
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In Symposium on the Foundations of Modern Physics: 50 Years of the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Gedankenexperiment, Pekka Lahti and Peter Mittelstaedt, eds.
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Gedankenexperiment: How Could This be Worse Than the Depression?
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