The big thinkers at Aperture analyze unsolved thought experiments that challenge the mind.

The Twin Earth thought experiment argues that meaning and reality depend not just on what we think, but on the physical world ...

As an instructive case, let’s apply the reverse-scenario test to the awful news in Minneapolis. Let me start by saying everybody agrees that it’s horrible. Two people have been killed in interactions ...

Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares have a new book titled If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us ...

A record-breaking experiment shows that a cluster of thousands of atoms can act like a wave as well as a particle ...

A century-old thought experiment on wave–particle duality is brought into the laboratory using a single trapped atom ...

In a recent paper, SFI Professor David Wolpert, SFI Fractal Faculty member Carlo Rovelli, and physicist Jordan Scharnhorst ...

How can we tell if a depression treatment works beyond placebo? A new real-world method measuring placebo shows that ...

The AI company shouting about AI’s dangers can’t quite bring itself to slow down.

Maine’s values — pragmatism, community responsibility, understatement — often feel closer to Atlantic Canada than to the political culture of distant capitals.

Scarlett Howard currently has funding from the Australian Research Council and the Hermon Slade Foundation. Adrian Dyer receives funding from the Australian Research Council, the Alexander von ...