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Julian continues to explain how science fiction and design are related thought-experiments ...
Science Fiction Doesn't Predict the Future, It Shapes It 2009
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BRIEF SYNOPSIS: Forty thought-experiments about what happens in the afterlife.
April 2009 2009
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BRIEF SYNOPSIS: Forty thought-experiments about what happens in the afterlife.
REVIEW: Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives by David Eagleman 2009
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A new theory can come from almost any source, deep-thought, a hunch, a dream, an inspiration, or from fanciful thought-experiments.
A True Scientist 2010
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Julian continues to explain how science fiction and design are related thought-experiments ...
March 2009 2009
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Consider two thought-experiments, one involving elves...
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The mind-expanding thought-experiments and heady adventure stories.
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The mind-expanding thought-experiments and heady adventure stories.
Archive 2008-10-01 Lou Anders 2008
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Using the first approach, I have looked for accounts of different experiences of happiness and asked what we can learn about such experiences from introspection, personal narratives, thought-experiments, literature, and art.
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But broad thought-experiments — like imagining what would become of 1908 America, if said continent magically popped up in the mid-Atlantic in 2008, and had to modernize and compete in the global economy — tell a different story.
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