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Traditionally, thought experiments are highly-structured hypothetical questions that employ “What if?” in some fashion in the fields of philosophy, physics and other sciences. I use the term “Thought Experiment” in the broadest and loosest sense of the term. My thought experiments are designed to:
- Help us understand the way we think through reflection on the experiment.
- Identify flaws in the way we have been educated.
- Help us find the right question. For example, it does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?
- Show how all things are subject to interpretation.
- Show how to look at the same thing as everyone else and see something different
- Encourage different ways of thinking.
- Encourage fluidity in thought.
- Challenge functional fixedness which is a cognitive bias that limits a person to using an object only in the way is traditionally used.
- Promote thinking beyond the boundaries of already established fact.
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