Thought experiments you can run
A thought experiment is an instrument: you set its parameters and read off your intuitions. These are built to be operated rather than read. Each takes a few minutes, and each is designed to show you where your answer came from.
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The Mind Detector
What are you actually measuring when you decide something has a mind?
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Ship of Theseus, Digital
At what point in a gradual replacement do you stop being you?
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The Epistemic Chain
Where does responsibility for a belief live when it arrives through a machine?
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Agency Without Consciousness
Can something act for reasons with no one home?
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The Responsibility Gap
When an autonomous system causes harm, where does the responsibility go?
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Does the Machine Know?
Which theory of knowledge, if any, lets a system without a knower know?
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Every experiment is a small, dependency-free module loaded only when its page opens. Nothing is tracked or stored; your answers stay in your browser tab. New instruments are added as the research raises new questions.