Sentences with phrase «engage in a thought experiment»

This principle helped Walt Disney bring his fantasies to life and also enabled Albert Einstein to engage in thought experiments that led to revolutionary ideas about space and time.

Participants are playfully confronted with their own values as they engage in a thought experiment about ethics, identification, and representation, as they decide who will survive to rebuild society.

Let's engage in a thought experiment.

Not exact matches

Though it may sound bizarre, engaging with fictional characters on a deep emotional level can be a sort of thought experiment in empathy, where we briefly step outside of our self - constructed glass boxes and engage with people who are both vastly different and the same on an intimate level.

Engaging in this kind of thought experiment is great, because it forces us to think about the physicality of the coming kingdom and helps us picture a world full of human creations rather than one of fluffy clouds and winged babies babies flying around.

He asks us to engage in a «thought experiment».

Next, Neuhaus says that «critical to the reasoning in Christianity Today is the fact that good Christians are engaged in such experiments and they do not think that they are doing anything morally questionable.»

UC San Diego Health recently engaged in a social experiment to encourage employees to think about the meaning of life.

When authors take control of their career in that manner, and when we start thinking bigger picture in longer term about what they're going to use this book for and what other books they come up with, that's when I think that they become an authorpreneur and they're engaging authorpreneurship is just taking control, knowing what you're doing and experimenting on what you don't know.

Joe Konrath's A Newbie's Guide to Publishing: You may already be familiar with Joe Konrath (or his alter - ego - de-plume Jack Kilborn) via Kindle Nation Daily, but in addition to being a fine author of suspense and horror fiction Joe is engaged very actively in experimenting with and thinking and writing about the world of book publishing from an author's perspective here in 2009.

These programs engage an array of community partners to bring them to life and explore topics such as Ireland's interests in language; his renowned sense of humor; his focus on materiality and choreographed movement; his thinking about chance and improvisation; and his experiments with light and space.

OHC changes are constrained by the global energy budget as you would expect if not engaged in pointless and misleading thought experiments.

We are engaged in grand unintentional (and I think reckless) experiment that everyone is involved in.

I also think individuals and groups are going to engage in geoengineering experiments (sulfates, solar radiation management, ocean seeding etc.) and these may «work» in some sense, but I think these experiements are likely to have unintended consequences and be difficult to scale up and deploy as an effective means to address the pulse of CO2 we have injected into the global carbon cycle.