Essays about: "thought-experiment"
Showing result 6 - 10 of 17 essays containing the word thought-experiment.
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6. Experimental Test of Local Observer-Independence Using IBM’s Quantum Computer
University essay from KTH/Skolan för teknikvetenskap (SCI)Abstract : The precise interpretation of quantum mechanics is still open to discussion. A number of non-intercompatible interpretations, with a not unsignificant respective following, are at the time of writing still viable. READ MORE
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7. Artificially Intelligent Black Boxes in Emergency Medicine : An Ethical Analysis
University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för psykologiAbstract : Det blir allt vanligare att föreslå att icke-transparant artificiell intelligens, s.k. black boxes, används inom akutmedicinen. I denna uppsats används etisk analys för att härleda sju riktlinjer för utveckling och användning av black boxes i akutmedicin. READ MORE
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8. The Secret Ingredients to Moral Philosophy: Blood, Sweat, and Tears : On bad enough worst-case scenarios in experimental approximations of John Rawls' Original Position
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : This paper approximates the study of a natural experiment to John Rawls’ thought experiment ‘the original position’ (OP). It argues that laboratory experiments have been unsuccessful in making legitimate approximations of the OP because of their inability to present convincing worst-case scenarios. READ MORE
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9. HETERONORMATIVITY OF THE AMBISEXUAL. A Queer Reading of the Science Fiction Novel The Left Hand of Darkness
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturerAbstract : The utopian genre exists predominantly in science fiction and has in the twentieth century been extensively explored in feminist literature. Ursula K. Le Guin is considered one of the leading authors in this genre and has created numerous thought experiments concerned with gender construction and its problematics. READ MORE
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10. The Normative Moral Codes Workshop : - A new thought-experiment aimed at investigating normative morality
University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för idé- och samhällsstudierAbstract : The normative moral code is considered to be such that it applies universally to all or at least to all who can understand and govern their behavior by it. All or almost all common folk think of and use their own moral codes as them being normative in that for example there simply seem to them to exist “oughts” that apply to all and that there simply, straightforwardly are “things” that are right and wrong, good and bad. READ MORE