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Thought Experiment
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The Last Human Morning
A guided simulation of solitude, meaning, and survival when everyone else is gone.
The Experience Machine
A choice between perfect experiences and real reality.
You Inherit a Billion Dollars Tomorrow
A serious walk-through of what money is actually for.
The Teleporter Problem
Identity and continuity when a perfect copy is made.
Twenty Years in a Day
A full life lived in a single night.
The Veil of Ignorance
Designing society without knowing who you will be.
Five People You Spend Time With
Testing the claim that you become your closest five.
The Reversible Life
Reversing one decision and living the other path.
Parenting Your Clone
Raising a genetic copy with what you know now.
The Stranger's Emergency
Testing the boundaries of obligation to strangers.
Knowing Your Death Date
What certainty about mortality does to a life.
The Language You Can't Think In
What if you woke up fluent in a language that had no word for 'I' — how would selfhood change?