Thought experiment

The prince and the cobbler Ship of Theseus knowledge argument quantum immortality Darwinian Demon social contract free field Eshelby's inclusion problem original position trolley problem Pascal's mugging lifeboat ethics Molyneux's problem Norton's dome Newcomb's paradox Pen's parade photon scale floating man Maxwell's demon Roko's basilisk grey goo Twin Earth thought experiment bucket argument Two Generals' Problem philosophical zombie Tullock's spike Galileo's ship mandarin paradox Joule expansion Chinese room temporal paradox twin paradox urn problem intuition pump The survival lottery Laplace's demon AI box moving magnet and conductor problem Blockhead China brain ladder paradox Cosmic catastrophe Silurian hypothesis experience machine reverse sprinkler two capacitor paradox Hardy's paradox Heinz dilemma if a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? Thomson's lamp