Sentences with phrase «involved in thought experiments»

Falk noted extra convolutions in the frontal lobes, which are believed to be involved in thought experiments.

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(I do not wish to underestimate the significance or validity of some of the carefully done experiments in para-psychology, involving such phenomena as precognition and thought transfer.

Naturally, I hope to persuade you of the wisdom of my own thought experiment; far more importantly, the experiment will have served its purpose if it stimulates and focuses fresh and continuing discussion of theological schooling by all of those who are involved in it, students and trustees, administrators and faculty.

From what I've read you are saying that we must be careful to always acknowledge we aren't involved merely in thought experiments with no consequences, and also that we must be careful we don't inadvertently steer ourselves into criticism for criticism's sake.

One theory from the teaspoon experiments involves the cornstarch grains bunching together into clusters, and its author, John Brady of the California Institute of Technology, thinks that the process at work in the new experiments could simply be that theory scaled up hundreds of thousands of times.

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.

Another researcher not involved in this study, Andrea Pittarello, a behavioral psychologist at Ben - Gurion University of the Negev in Israel, proposes that the mechanism behind ethical decision - making in these experiments is that thinking of previous dishonesty «make [s] moral standards more salient and in turn decrease [s] dishonesty.»

Your article «Cruelty - free quantum probes» (30 April, p 8) invoked Schrödinger's famous thought experiment involving a cat in a closed...

To me this was enough retinal recreation for one day, so before Wolfe got me too involved in his other experiments — including the wiggle - the - eyeball and misalign - the - eyes tests — I thought it best to try my own exercise, known as hang - up - the - phone.

The researchers examined the relationship between belief in God or a universal spirit with measures of analytic thinking and moral concern in eight different experiments, each involving 159 to 527 adults.

A thought experiment involving a paradox of pigeons shows a new kind of quantum link that could be happening everywhere in the cosmos, all the time

This is also why I think anyone involved in price experiments should try enough different points to have statistically significant data to graph their line with confidence.

Ironically, Milgram's experiments involved naive subjects inflicting what they thought were painful, electric shocks on people who pretended to be in pain.

Arlene Shechet, the sculptor known for her ceramic works that involve experiments with chance and elements of Zen Buddhist thinking, will now be represented by Pace Gallery, which has spaces in New York, London, Beijing, Hong Kong, Seoul, Geneva, and Palo Alto, California.

I think this is a great thought experiment - look at how many are getting involved, bringing in their expertise.

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