Great Thought Experiments
Like Duolingo, but for Great Thought Experiments. Tomo turns the whole topic into a game you play five minutes a day, until it actually sticks.
For the part of you with thirty open tabs that never became anything.
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You've tried the other tabs
Thirty open tabs. Four facts you actually kept.
You watched. You nodded. By Sunday it was gone.
One answer, then back to scrolling.
Eight weeks. You meant to finish. You didn't.
Tomo turns Great Thought Experiments into a game you actually finish. Levels, streaks, and quick quizzes that make it stick. Five minutes a day.
Where Great Thought Experiments takes you
Explore the boundaries of logic, ethics, and reality through history's most famous mental simulations. Challenge your intuition and learn how philosophers and scientists use 'Gedankenexperiments' to solve the unsolvable.
- 1
Identity and the Self
- The Ship of Theseus
- Locke’s Prince and the Cobbler
- Parfit’s Teletransporter Paradox
- The Brain in a Vat
- 2
Ethics and Moral Dilemmas
- The Classic Trolley Problem
- Foot’s Transplant Scenario
- The Survival Lottery
- Rawls’ Veil of Ignorance
- The Experience Machine
- Thomson’s Violinist
- 3
The Nature of Mind and Knowledge
- Mary’s Room (The Knowledge Argument)
- Searle’s Chinese Room
- The Philosophical Zombie
- 4
Physics and the Fabric of Reality
- Maxwell’s Demon
- Schrödinger’s Cat
- Einstein’s Chasing a Light Beam
- The Twin Paradox
- Laplace’s Demon
4 sections · 18 units · 54 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.
Here's what playing it feels like
A real question from this course. Take your best guess.
If a ship undergoes repairs, what are we investigating if we ask if it has maintained its 'numerical identity'?
Get it right to open this lesson and 53 more in the app.
You pick the voice
Great Thought Experiments is taught in the The Professor style: clear, structured, thorough. Want a different feel? In the app you can spin up the same topic in any of Tomo's teaching styles. Same facts, totally different vibe.
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