Sentences with phrase «in a thought experiment about»

In this chapter the author invites the reader to join in a thought experiment about what some theological school known to them is and ought to be.

You have been invited to share in a thought experiment about the questions, «What makes a good theological school?»

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.

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The results of this radical experiment are now in — Roberts has written about his experience in a long, thought - provoking piece for Outside magazine.

In one experiment, participants were randomly assigned to spend their solitary time thinking about whatever they wanted, or think about what researchers told them to — either something positive or neutral.

A recent study published in the Journal of Consumer Research found that people who were asked to think about the past were willing to pay more for products than those who were asked to think about new or future memories; another experiment showed an increased willingness to give more money to others after recalling a nostalgic event.

He didn't respond to comment for this story, but on Tuesday said this on Twitter about the grand Disney Infinity experiment: «I'd like to think that we contributed to the legacy of Disney in some way and created memories for you, your friends and family w / our game.»

The theory behind it is simple: If Facebook has experimented on its users to find new and exciting ways to get us to use it in the way they'd prefer, we should also feel free to experiment on Facebook, and see if those experiments change how we think about what we share with one of the biggest repositories of human data in history.

We've conducted a thought experiment in response to those questions and in this chapter it has yielded some elements of a utopian proposal about a theological school.

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.

We can't test such experiments in the real world (for obvious reasons), but our thoughts about the hypotheticals can reveal important insights into the real world and, more likely, our biases about it.

In recent years I have experimented with different kinds of involvement in social issues — with limited success — and I have done some thinking about what form a new social gospel movement might takIn recent years I have experimented with different kinds of involvement in social issues — with limited success — and I have done some thinking about what form a new social gospel movement might takin social issues — with limited success — and I have done some thinking about what form a new social gospel movement might take.

It is catholic thought in the service of better understanding of how the crisis came about, and it is Catholic thought proposing a different, more morally compelling, and more enduring idea of the democratic experiment.

In my comment a couple of days ago I went through a thought experiment concerning the third possibility above and arrived at the following — if existence just is, then it was not created (either from God or out of nothingness) and therefore it has always been here (remember I'm talking about all of existence, not a conceivably lesser object like the universe).

Hi Ella As I just moved out and start to get braver in kitchen experiments, I'm thinking about buying a food processor for nut butters, engery bites and so on.

I have really enjoyed your series of posts and am glad that they will continue — it has been great to learn about German baking and see how your experiments have gone (all look delicious to me)-- I like your discussion of Dr Oetker — I can't think of a company in Australia that both is famous for cookbooks and products but I know of the Betty Crocker stuff.

It made me giddy with excitement — I always like to see gluten free baking experiments turn out well, and I've been having much more consistent results ever since I started really thinking about the ratios and weights of the ingredients and trying to approach my recipe development techniques in a more systematic fashion.

I'm thinking about throwing in some new stuff on the next batch to experiment a bit, maybe some jojoba oil for extra moisturizing benefits?

So while I'm busy experimenting a variety of blood orange recipes over the next week I thought I'd write about the drink that always welcomes their arrival in our house.

I was thinking about experimenting with pastry using these flours — I figure that the lower gluten content isn't an issue in a pie crust?

Most plant - based protein powder sources are naturally high in fat (nuts & seeds) and tend to be costly, but I thought it would be fun to experiment with since I've tried just about every single...

I think it is funny that this happened today because «got asked to write an obit about a guy who isn't dead» is the weirdest fast violation in this whole experiment — so far, at least.

For the next three seasons, they are a fresh petri dish, an experiment in what the NFL could be if it thought about fans first.

She was talking about the cells in my experiment that kept failing, but I think it is just as apt for motherhood: It is not you.

In this thought experiment, the president would presumably sign it, so we don't have to worry about overriding a veto.

OK, so it's unlikely that anyone in the pub will want to beat you to it when you tell about the killer experiment that you think might turn your field on its head.

But as I followed the citation trail and actually started looking at the primary studies that were cited in support of those conclusions — and thinking seriously about the methods that had been employed in the studies, the presuppositions behind them, and whether there were alternative evolutionary hypotheses for the things studied that were not in fact being ruled out by the experiments — I began to find that it wasn't all that convincing.

In this episode, journalist Alan Weisman, Laureate Associate Professor in Journalism and Latin American Studies at the University of Arizona, discusses his new book «The World Without Us,» a massive thought experiment about the aftermath of humanity's sudden disappearancIn this episode, journalist Alan Weisman, Laureate Associate Professor in Journalism and Latin American Studies at the University of Arizona, discusses his new book «The World Without Us,» a massive thought experiment about the aftermath of humanity's sudden disappearancin Journalism and Latin American Studies at the University of Arizona, discusses his new book «The World Without Us,» a massive thought experiment about the aftermath of humanity's sudden disappearance.

Eliene Augenbraun, multimedia managing editor for Scientific American and Nature Research Group publications, said the story «invites kids to participate in experiments that change the way you think about your own life.»

Participating in journal clubs also helped me to analyze experiments and to begin thinking about how to design alternative experiments or new experiments to address related questions.

«I've thought about doing those experiments to see if there's something in the media.»

«The yeast experiments give us one more angle to think about the problem,» Carpenter writes in an e-mail.

Right about that time, Greene heard about an ethical thought experiment called the trolley problem, developed in the 1960s by British philosopher Philippa Foot and expanded by American philosopher Judith Jarvis Thomson.

In fact, I'm thinking right now about a simple, Earth - based experiment that might turn up evidence for little bubbles of the other universes.

So I thought I will experiment with this, and I had a friend, [a] teacher who taught at the U.S.C., and I was going to be at U.S.C. one day, so [I said, «Why don't you] ask 20 engineering students to come in prepared to talk about their work for about two minutes.»

«I don't think there's any particle experiment that has ruled out the existence of what they're talking about,» agrees Gary Feldman of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, US.

In one online experiment, the researchers assigned 1,003 participants to watch a video, read step - by - step instructions, or merely think about performing the «tablecloth trick,» which involves pulling a tablecloth off a table without disturbing the place settings on top.

This week on the podcast: We'll hear a little more from Alan Weisman, author of the best - selling book, «The World without Us, which is at its core — gigantic thought experiment, what would happen if human beings suddenly disappeared and we'll talk to Scientific American editor in chief, John Rennie, about some big doings at the magazine.

So, if these waves are discovered — and both Scott and I have been part of a group that has been looking at we might be able to do in the next set of satellites that may look for this, and John has been a leader in thinking about building experiments to look for these things — if we detect gravitational waves from inflation, there is a real possibility of pinning things down [enough] so that one could perhaps convince every physicist that inflation happened.

If correct, the results will force physicists to reconsider what they thought they knew about a range of materials, including the special kind of superconductor used in the experiment.

And being able to give people fun and interesting experiments to do right off the bat boils down to — once again — spending time as a postdoc thinking about the kinds of projects you want to pursue later in your career.

In experiments with lab mice, she discovered how small groups of cells dance about to form an embryo and how a layer of cells surrounding the embryo itself, previously thought of as nothing more than a protective cloak, orchestrates the formation of an embryo's body parts.

In the experiment, the researchers manipulated how the participants thought about intelligence by having them read made - up science articles that highlighted either the stability or the malleability of intelligence.

«There were already some clues because arsenic and silicon are very similar in terms of their location on the periodic table, and before that paper came out I had thought about doing some competition experiments between arsenic and silicon rice.

Running their labs safely is not just about meeting regulatory requirements, they add — it is about making sure their group members think about their experiments with safety in mind.

The problem lies not in the experiments but in our way of thinking about time.

he continues to pose questions and do experiments that affect our ability to understand the human genome... and he continues to change the way we think about the genome, how to navigate it, and what those changes mean in transcriptional regulation,» said Elaine A. Ostrander, NIH Distinguished Investigator and Chief of the Cancer Genetics & Comparative Genomics Branch at the National Human Genome Research Institute and one of those nominating Kruglyak for this honor.

Alison Gopnik describes new experiments in developmental psychology that show everything we think we know about babies is wrong.

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

And as you'll see below, a lot of these experiments are just about «letting go» of existing beliefs and relaxing on a lot of the hardcore fitness «rules» that people think are stuck in stone.