The Chinese room is a thought experiment presented by John Searle.

He presented a thought experiment in which electrons are introduced through a small hole in a sphere whose inner surface serves as a detection screen.

The ongoing experiment is presented to the unsuspecting attorney.

* The reader is presented with a thought experiment: someone sent shopping with an order on a slip.

* Official encouragement: As the Stanford prison experiment and Milgram experiment show, many people will follow the direction of an authority figure ( such as a superior officer ) in an official setting ( especially if presented as mandatory ), even if they have personal uncertainty.

" Newton's cannonball ", presented as a " thought experiment " in A Treatise of the System of the World, was the first published mathematical study of the possibility of an artificial satellite.

The scenario presented in a thought experiment must be possible in some sense.

The play was then presented as a " Big Brother type social experiment ", in which the Lady plays Katherina and allows Sly ( as Petruchio ) to dominate where the action goes, all the while attempting to gauge how the male mind works under a given set of circumstances.

In one experiment, the longer participants ( from both the UK and the South African Zulus ) held a painful skiing position, the more money or food was presented to a given relative.

Although von Neumann's projection postulate is often presented as a normative description of quantum measurement, it was conceived by taking into account experimental evidence available during the 1930s ( in particular the Compton-Simon experiment has been paradigmatic ), and many important present-day measurement procedures do not satisfy it ( so-called measurements of the second kind ).

The Twin Earth thought experiment was a thought experiment presented by philosopher Hilary Putnam in his 1973 paper " Meaning and Reference " and subsequent 1975 paper " The Meaning of ' Meaning '", as an early argument for what has subsequently come to be known as semantic externalism.

In one condition of the experiment, after the monkey has paid for the goods, it has the option to take a sure amount of food now, or wait until the experimenter alters the amount of food presented.

In Roediger and McDermott's ( 1995 ) experiment, subjects were presented with a list of related items ( such as candy, sugar, honey ) to study.

People with source amnesia during this test feel ' phantom ' feelings of familiarity towards words that are semantically related ( e. g.: candy, sugar, sweet ) and will more often claim to have seen a word that was not presented during the experiment.

In " The Extended Mind ," a thought experiment is presented to further illustrate the environment's role in connection to the mind.

After several days in confinement when the bees were presented with a choice of colors just as in the first experiment, they virtually always chose the color that had been used during the first three trials.

In an experiment to test this heuristic, Tversky and Kahneman presented participants with four lists of names: two lists with the names of 19 famous women and 20 less famous men, and two lists with the names of 19 famous men and 20 less famous women.

One such later experiment, presented by Watson & Ramey ( 1969 ), consisted of two groups of human babies.

The first experiment was designed to assess VP's ability to make between-field perceptual judgements about simultaneously presented pairs of stimuli.

In the experiment, participant ’ s perceptions and polarization was measured in response to information presented in one of three different conditions: in-group, unrelated group, and uncategorized individual.

In the second phase of the experiment 60 “ old words ”- seen in stage one and “ 20 new words ” not shown in stage one were presented to the subjects one at a time.

* Episodic Recognition Task: Subjects were presented with each word and had to decide whether they had seen the word in the previous stage of the experiment.

Seeing this, the Company took the opportunity to experiment with a change to their approach and argument.

In 1946 Piazzolla formed his, Orquesta Típica, which although having a similar formation to other tango orchestras of the day, gave him his first opportunity to experiment with his own approach to the orchestration and musical content of tango.

A version was also an opportunity for a producer or remix engineer to experiment and express their more creative side.

The Concerto gave Deep Purple its first highly publicised taste of mainstream fame and gave Lord the confidence to believe that his experiment and his compositional skill had a future, as well as giving Lord the opportunity to work with established classical figures, such as conductor Sir Malcolm Arnold ( knighted in 1993 ), who brought his technical skills to bear by helping Lord score the work and to protect him from the inevitable disdain of the older members of the orchestra.

The idea was to turn the festival into an opportunity for directors to experiment with new methods for presenting the operas.

But Manne appreciated the musical freedom that Kenton gave him and saw it as an opportunity to experiment along with what was still a highly innovative band.

Other payloads: Shuttle Amateur Radio Experiment ( SAREX ); KidSat, a project that gives middle school students opportunity to participate in space exploration ; and Trapped Ions in Space ( TRIS ), a Naval Research Laboratory experiment flown in Get Away Special canister in cargo bay.

Golo Mann wanted to take the opportunity to continue his studies in Prague, but soon stopped the experiment.

A versatile and creative mind will embrace the opportunity of such practice to innovate and experiment, which develops uniquely individual qualities of each artist's expression.

The museum gives artists an opportunity to experiment and push the limits of their work.

International friendlies give team managers the opportunity to experiment with team selection and tactics before the tournament proper, and also allow them to assess the abilities of players they may potentially select for the tournament squad.

" Compilation producer Yoshinori Kitase said that when given the opportunity to expand any previous Final Fantasy title for the company's experiment in polymorphic content, he " immediately chose Final Fantasy VII ," because of its status as a milestone in the series ' history and its popularity among fans.

The collection is McEwan's first published work and was regarded by the author ( along with his second collection of short stories, In Between the Sheets ) as an opportunity to experiment and find his voice as a writer.

The sessions did provide an opportunity to rehearse new compositions, including " In The Summertime ," as well as experiment with new ideas.

Acknowledging the likes of Radiohead's OK Computer and Massive Attack's Mezzanine, and the growing influence of such shoegazer bands as Slowdive and the more ethereal sounds of 4AD bands such as Dead Can Dance the group took the opportunity to experiment with their sound and reinvent themselves.

The Russian chrononaut ( Olga's husband, believed to have died seven years earlier in a failed experiment ) tried to steal the Element-115 fuel source and damage the Chronosphere.

In Milgram's first set of experiments, 65 percent ( 26 of 40 ) of experiment participants administered the experiment's final massive 450-volt shock, though many were very uncomfortable doing so ; at some point, every participant paused and questioned the experiment ; some said they would refund the money they were paid for participating in the experiment.

The income from the shop and his new inventions gave him enough money to experiment on new tricks using glass apparatus that would be ( or at least appear ) free of trickery.

Parents objected to their children having to travel between the two buildings and the consolidation did not save the school board any money, so they voted to end the experiment in 1919.

In 1885, Michelson began a collaboration with Edward Morley, spending considerable time and money to confirm with higher accuracy Fizeau's 1851 experiment on Fresnel's drag coefficient, to improve on Michelson's 1881 experiment, and to establish the wavelength of light as a standard of length.

She was also an enthusiastic champion of literary experiment who was willing to use her money to publish the group.

The Ruskin experiment collapsed in 1903 when town residents resisted the Utopian business model and Vrooman's wife divorced him saying that he had squandered $ 250, 000 of her money.

To illustrate the point, an experiment to test for the mass of neutrinos or the decay of protons ( small departures from the model ) would be more likely to receive money than experiments to look for the violation of the conservation of momentum, or ways to engineer reverse time travel.

After a failed experiment to attract the moon maxed out all the university's money, he not only became the laughing stock of the campus but was expelled as well.

Hawthorne did not particularly agree with the ideals of the experiment, hoping only that it would help him raise enough money to begin his life with his wife-to-be Sophia Peabody.

Octavius spends the money that he stole to get equipment for the more advanced version of his experiment.

Some of his other works from that period are DIECIMILA ( 1977 ), a facsimile of an Italian 10, 000 Lira note, possibly the first fine art print that ( like paper money ) is printed on both sides of the paper ; The Speed of Light Machine ( 1983 ), in which he reconstructed a scientific experiment with which to " see " the speed of light ; and the installation C. B. T. V.

Another one of Joey's jobs when he was low on money was as a sperm donor for an experiment that a hospital was conducting ; at the end, the hospital would pay any donor $ 700.

* 1849: Eaton Hodgkinson is granted a small sum of money to report to the UK Parliament on his work in ascertaining by direct experiment, the effects of continued changes of load upon iron structures and to what extent they could be loaded without danger to their ultimate security.

An advantage of block grants is that they allow regional governments to experiment with different ways of spending money with the same goal in mind, though it is very difficult to compare the results of such spending and reach a conclusion.

The experiment came to an embarrassing end when he ran out of money for the electricity meter.

This was as a result of his inherited money, his focus on experiment in chemistry and physics, his knowledge of the state-of-the-art methods, the scarcity of other laboratories in Europe at the time, and finally the high value he placed on facilitating the researches of up-and-coming young scientists.

After finishing the project, but losing money due to low passenger numbers, Keith placed bananas in the empty cars and shipped them to the United States as a ( subsequently successful ) business experiment.

Thompson ( who would go on to executive-produce such shows as The Larry Sanders Show ), said later that he took the job purely for the money, but unexpectedly found it to be " my completely favorite experience in show business ", because the network left him and his young cast free to experiment.

We brought it out ; it didn't make any money, but was shown and it was an interesting experiment.

Moreover, attempts to falsify a claim, by replicating an experiment, are hard and problematic for it involves tacit knowledge ( i. e. unarticulated knowledge ), matters of time and money and replication of exact similar conditions, which is hard.