Thought Experiment


God's Debris: A Thought Experiment
The Time Machine
The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
The Just City (Thessaly, #1)
The Long Earth (The Long Earth, #1)
Bird Box (Bird Box, #1)
The Pig That Wants to Be Eaten: 100 Experiments for the Armchair Philosopher
The Man in the High Castle (Vintage)
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings
The Left Hand of Darkness
Designing Your Life: Build a Life that Works for You
The Last Messiah
Piranesi
1984 by George Orwellگم شده ای در مه by سید مرتضی مصطفویTWAS The Year 2020 by Karl WigginsFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyWrong Planet - Searching for your Tribe by Karl Wiggins
Literature of ideas
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Lucy  Carter
Suppose there is a group of friends who create a club where the rule is to “not follow any rules.” However, “do not follow any rules” is a rule. If the friends followed the rule, then they are breaking the rule at the same time, but if they try to break the rule, they would be following rules, which is forbidden. What a paradox! What should the friends do, without changing the rule?
Lucy Carter, The Reformation

Lucy  Carter
Suppose some organism, let’s just say a chicken, hatched from an abandoned nest; there were no other eggs in that nest, so it couldn’t see its fellow chicken siblings, and since the nest was abandoned, the chicken couldn’t see its mother. There were no other chickens surrounding it. There were also no reflective surfaces in the area, so the chicken couldn’t see what it looked like and a few moments later, it became blind, so it could not look down at its feet or see its own feathers. Because of ...more
Lucy Carter, The Reformation

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