Top 10 THOUGHT EXPERIMENTS That Will Mess With Your BRAIN

are stories or analogies that attempt to shed light on an array of topics. Sometimes they are hypothetical situations to help us look at the world differently, or they show the paradoxes in human nature. Or they can help us visualize complicated concepts with the simplicity of a story. But no matter what they explain or illustrate, these thought experiments will hopefully mess with your mind, at least a little bit.

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Coming up:

10. The Plank of Carneades
9. The Library of Babel
8. The Two Generals Problem
7. The Famous Violinist
6. The Experience Machine
5. The Spider in the Urinal
4. Swampman
3. Kavka’s Toxin Puzzle
2. The Survival Lottery
1. Roko’s Basilisk

Source/Further reading:

   • The Plank of Carneades (Thought Exper...  
https://maskofreason.files.wordpress....
   • The Two Generals Problem  
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/u...
http://spot.colorado.edu/~heathwoo/Ph...
   • 21. The Experience Machine  
http://www.uky.edu/~mwa229/RobertNozi...
   • Thought Experiment: The Spider in the...  
https://books.google.ca/books?id=NJGs...
https://books.google.ca/books?id=sX-p...
   • Kavka Toxin Paradox Explained  
https://www.law.upenn.edu/live/files/...
http://history.as.uky.edu/sites/defau...
http://www.caragillis.com/UCI/Lecture...
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/uti...
   • CONCEPT /// Roko's Basilisk  
http://www.businessinsider.com/what-i...
https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Roko%...
http://lesswrong.com/