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	Talk:Thought experiment - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Intuition pump auto-redirects here which, while not 100% accurate, is fine.
		But, the mention of intuition pump within the article is inaccurate.
		I went on to say that intuition pumps are fine if they're used correctly, but they can also be misused.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Talk:Thought_experiment (2393 words)

	Presentation Summary PHIL 362 Jason Bosgra
		He is using these pumps in the manner of rationalizing the fact that he is refusing to use a formal argument in regards to a topic that is base more on intuition than on rationality.
		Section 1: is the introduction of intuition pumps and the traditional definition of qualia, as he understands it.
		Intuition Pumps main purpose is to illustrate the big mistake in believing the above definition as acceptable because of the falsity and incompleteness of the definition.
	web.mala.bc.ca /clemotteo/presentation1_summary____phil_362.htm (1674 words)

	Epiphenomenalism
		For example, we can use a fan to pump some noxious gas from one room to another, or to the outside of a building; but if we set a fan on the lawn, it may beat the air, but is not (functioning as) a pump.
		Of course, objects are caused to be pumps, i.e., their being pumps is a consequence of their parts having the properties they have and standing in the relations in which they stand.
		We feel it is idle to deny that pumps move fluids because pumps are realized in (or by) the system of parts whose properties and relations figure in the fully detailed causal explanation of the movement of fluids.
	www.seop.leeds.ac.uk /archives/win1999/entries/epiphenomenalism (6471 words)

	Charles W. Johnson (2006): Intuition-Pumping for Fun and Profit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		But if intuitions are a popular — and probably indispensable — tool for philosophers, they’re also something of a blunt tool: they’ll nail down the issue decisively for those you can get to share them, but they are also easy to misuse and often swung with full force where they are neither needed or wanted.
		Intuitions for indifference may be open to discussion, and so may intuitions for the benevolent option, but an intuition for the malicious option is just crazy.
		Since my own argument rests on an appeal to your intuitions about other people’s intuitions, there might still be someone out there who is willing to grasp the nettle, and deny not only the intuition for the benevolent options, but also the intuition for the asymmetry between the intuitions for the benevolent and malicious options.
	charleswjohnson.name /essays/intuition-pumping (4426 words)

	Delineating Qualia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Intuition pump 4: the Brainstorm machine Dennett supposedly destroys the argument against the brainstorm machine by showing that even with such a machine it is not possible to show that which inverted spectrum is the ‘correct’ one.
		Intuition pump 5: the Neurophysiological prank This is a continuation of the previous intuition pump but with the difference that instead of interpersonal comparison we are dealing with intrapersonal comparison of qualia.
		Intuition pump 10: the world wide eugenics experiment The whole argument rests on an assumption about the assumptions that qualia-philes (supporters of qualia) make, which is, similar tokens of a particular quale should be produced by the same stimuli.
	www.rit.edu /~maa2454/Indpen/linqual.html (2665 words)

	Midsouth Proceedings 2006: Geekery Today 2006-02-27 :: Rad Geek People's Daily (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		But I argue that an asymmetry in our intuitions in each of these arguments reveals that the charge is unjust, and that they ought to be just as decisive for skeptics as to converts.
		But I think that the attempt to explain away the intuitions by way of cognitive bias (whatever the genesis of that cognitive bias is supposed to have been) fails anyway.
		In this case, it shows that the intuitions for the benevolent and against the malicious option are Moorean statements, because it provides the best explanation for the asymmetry (in the way I describe in the essay).
	radgeek.com /gt/2006/02/27/midsouth_proceedings (5984 words)

	Pumping for gestural origins: The well may be rather dry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Corballis' explanation for right-handedness in humans relies heavily on the gestural proto-language hypothesis, which he argues for by a series of "intuition pumps." Scrutinizing the mirror system hypothesis and modern gesture as components of the argument, we find that they do not provide the desired evidence of a gestural precursor to speech.
		Corballis appeals to the reader's evolutionary intuition by invoking the mirror system findings, the importance of which depends largely on assuming perceptual and motor integration is playing a special, language-specific role.
		Our intuition is the opposite, that it would be surprising if such integration were not found to be a basic function of multiple brain areas underlying cognition.
	www.people.cornell.edu /pages/rad28/papers/dalerichow.html (1110 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		This argument turns on the intuition that it would be unthinkably crazy if those Norwegians (or a Chinese Nation, or a bunch of beer cans, or whatever) constituted an actual conscious, intelligent entity.
		Bringsjord's intuition pump instructs us to imagine 4 billion people, dynamically instantiating a Turing Machine which represents all the complexity of a human brain.
		Here's the idea: "Which [intuition pumps] should be trusted is a matter to settle by examining them carefully, to see which features of the narrative are doing the work.
	www.infomotions.com /serials/psycoloquy/psycol-941227-scholl-intuitions.txt (2410 words)

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		Now, there's scientific evidence that helps explain how and why our intuition works, and why you might want to start listening to that little voice.
		I got this incredibly sick feeling in the pit of my stomach almost nauseated and it caused me to be very leery of the situation.
		So instead of just walking directly up to the side window and meeting the gentleman, I kind of walked behind the gas pumps and walked up along the side of the vehicle like a police officer would do at a traffic stop.
	www.ksdk.com /printfullstory.aspx?storyid=81945 (556 words)

	Quining Qualia
		In section 4, six more intuition pumps are arrayed in order to dissipate the attractiveness of those ideas, and section 5 drives this point home by showing how hapless those ideas prove to be when confronted with some real cases of anomalous experience.
		Suppose, in intuition pump #4: the Brainstorm machine, there were some neuroscientific apparatus that fits on your head and feeds your visual experience into my brain (as in the movie, Brainstorm, which is not to be confused with the book, Brainstorms).
		Suppose, in intuition pump #8: the gradual post-operative recovery, that we have somehow "surgically inverted" Chase's taste bud connections in the standard imaginary way: post-operatively, sugar tastes salty, salt tastes sour, etc. But suppose further-- and this is as realistic a supposition as its denial--that Chase has subsequently compensated--as revealed by his behavior.
	ase.tufts.edu /cogstud/papers/quinqual.htm (12743 words)

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		Frank Jackson's thought experiment about Mary the color scientist is a prime example of an intuition pump, a thought experiment that is not so much a formal argument as a little scenario or vignette that has been pumping philosophical intuitions with remarkable vigor since it first appeared in 1982.
		GandH cannot bring themselves to abandon the intuition, but more important, they cannot even bring themselves to acknowledge that their whole case thus comes down to simply announcing their continued allegiance to a claim that, whether it is true or false, has been declared false and hence could use some support.
		But that just shows how treacherous the original intuition pump is; it discourages us from even trying to imagine the task facing Mary is she wants to figure out what it is like to see red.
	ase.tufts.edu /cogstud/papers/robomaryfin6.htm (6754 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The case of the criminous employee is another parable or "intuition pump" which illustrates that key idea in the theory of inalienability.
		The intuition pumps of the criminous slave, the tortious servant, the criminous employee, and the part-time robot have illustrated the argument by focusing on responsibility, the central theme in the labor theory of property.
		In this chapter, the essentials of the theory are presented with the expository assistance of four intuition pumps: the criminous slave, the tortious servant, the criminous employee, and the part-time robot.
	cog.kent.edu /lib/Ellerman4/Chapter8.htm (6795 words)

	The Search for a Purpose in Harvey and Modern Biology
		Scientific hypotheses must be falsifiable; teleological statements are generally not, but they can sometimes act as 'intuition pumps,' assisting a scientist in the invention of testable theories.
		The right ventricle pumps all the blood of the body through the lungs, and the blood then travels to the left ventricle by way of the pulmonary vein and the left auricle.
		Similarly, Harvey notes how the pulmonary artery -- which Harvey and his contemporaries call the arterial vein, because it is on the same side of the heart as the veins -- has the structure of an artery because it has the function of the artery.
	www.gps.caltech.edu /~rkopp/collegepapers/harvey.html (2293 words)

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		One way to pump our intuitions about incommensurability is to come up with cases in which we are not sure how to make a choice but are not sure that we are indifferent between alternatives either.
		They extract the intuition with the following pump: I might prefer being alive and having twenty extra dollars to just being alive and just being alive to being killed, but it seems perverse to say that there is some gamble that I will take involving the possibility of my getting killed for twenty dollars.
		The fact that we have an intuition that flmail is wrong and that we make it a crime is taken by Professor Katz as definitive evidence that the structure of moral intuition and criminal law are require us to express an attitude hostile to maximizing.
	home.nyc.rr.com /jwbailey/maximize.htm (11204 words)

	Qualia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In a series of thought experiments, which he calls "intuition pumps", he brings qualia into the world of neurosurgery, clinical psychology, and psychological experimentation.
		His argument attempts to show that, once the concept of qualia is so imported, it turns out that we can either make no use of it in the situation in question, or that the questions posed by the introduction of qualia are unanswerable precisely because of the special properties defined for qualia.
		Mary might be considered to be like a feral child.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Qualia (2321 words)

	The Third Culture - Chapter 10
		They are what I call "intuition pumps" — lovely thought experiments.
		I coined the term "intuition pump," and its first use was derogatory.
		But the intuition that qualia exist is real, and as yet irreducible and inexplicable.
	www.edge.org /documents/ThirdCulture/r-Ch.10.html (5474 words)

	Applied Intuition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Intuition training works on the assumption that we already have within us a powerful guidance system that can help us to reach our highest potential.
		That is an intuition because intuition bridges both natures, human nature and...
		Intuition and conceptions constitute, therefore, the elements of...
	www.quantum-self.com /1/applied-intuition.html (731 words)

	SEP: Moral Psychology: Empirical Approaches
		In so far as it is disconnected from the thoughts and feels of the lived ethical life, ethical theory risks being “motivationally inaccessible,” or incapable of engaging the ethical concern of agents who are supposed to live in accordance with the normative standards of the theory.
		To be sure, social psychology vignettes of the sort we've considered typically fall comically short of literary realism; in order to effectively isolate the variables of interest and reduce the possibility of confounds investigators must eliminate the ambiguities and nuances that give life its texture.
		But notice that the resulting lack of naturalness is entirely typical of philosophical thought experiments, where it is argued that the stripping away of detail helps focus attention on the philosophically relevant issues identified by an “intuition pump” (see Dennett 1984: 16-17).
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/moral-psych-emp (16745 words)

	AI: Is the human mind just a computer?: Philosophy Forums (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Just as the heliocentric theory did not utilize the intuition that the Sun SEEMS to revolve around the earth (in fact it required much rational effort to overcome), any scientific explanation of the human mind will eventually require us to qive up our heartfelt intuitions on this topic as well.
		My contempt for intuition is not universal- for the topics our intuitions were actually evolved for (mate selection, personal safety, etc) intuitions should be given much attention- but for scientific problems, we have already seen that they are simply not reliable sources of knowledge.
		You want me to explain your intuitions of intentionality and how they "arise" from algorithms, but this presupposes that intentionality is a physical property when it is merely an arbitrary (though often useful) description of certain types of outcomes.
	forums.philosophyforums.com /thread/12459/4 (8190 words)

	Daylight Atheism > Cracking the Fortune Cookie
		The Chinese Room is a type of philosophical thought experiment that Daniel Dennett refers to as "intuition pumps", analogies that are designed to elicit an intuitive conclusion in a simple realm and then transfer that conclusion to a more complex domain.
		While intuition pumps are an appealing tool, they are frequently used to misdirect; very often, the conclusion drawn in the simple problem is not straightforwardly transferable to the more complicated problem.
		This is especially true in the domain of the mind, where our understanding is still so limited that "intuitions" about how such a system could or could not possibly work are as perilous as they are common.
	www.daylightatheism.org /2006/02/cracking-the-fortune-cookie.html (3194 words)

	heart \| English \| Dictionary & Translation by Babylon
		The heart is a hollow, muscular organ in vertebrates responsible for pumping blood through the blood vessels by repeated, rhythmic contractions, or a similar structure in annelids, mollusks, and arthropods.
		The heart is a muscle which pumps blood it receives from veins into arteries throughout the body.
		the locus of feelings and intuitions; "in your heart you know it is true"; "her story would melt your bosom"
	www.babylon.com /definition/heart/?uil=English (1224 words)

	Newcomb&Kavka
		I Pump for 2-boxing: imagine that the money is put in the boxes a month before your choice, and that you have a friend who can see what is in both.
		That person wi ll be urging you to take both, whatever the predictor has done.
		But there is an intuition here which is widely shared.
	www.arts.ualberta.ca /~amorton/Newcomb&Kavka.html (1612 words)

	PHIL 201 D - RQ Dennett Chs. 3-4
		During this discussion he points out that (i) controllers, to genuinely be controllers, must have (something like) desires about the state of the controllee (52).
		At some point we must engage in radical re-evaluation, an evaluation which is not clearly based on articulated values and strategies, and in the course of the radical re-evaluation we actually define ourselves—our character—by ultimately defining and articulating new values and strategies—i.e., we self-create.
		Through the first four chapters Dennett has engaged in successively more subtle and complex analyses of: the traditional intuition pumps, the notion of rationality and how it could evolve in a deterministic world, control and self-control, selfhood and responsibility for one’s character.
	classes.colgate.edu /pgregory/phil201/RQDennett34.html (520 words)

	Resource Guide 2005 - New Diabetes Products - American Diabetes Association
		The Advance Intuition has a large display screen and can store up to 10 blood glucose readings.
		This pump holds up to 300 units of insulin for those who require more insulin for their diabetes care.
		It's designed to work with all standard luer-lock insulin pumps, including MiniMed 506 and 508 pumps, Animas pumps, and Deltec pumps.
	www.diabetes.org /rg2005/newproducts.jsp (765 words)

	The Nature of Free Will by Peter Voss
		The decision to stop thinking is a little different; irrespective of whether it is made consciously or subconsciously there is at least the possibility of control (and thus responsibility): If we choose consciously, then presumably we have reason to stop thinking; alternatively we simply default and allow our subconscious to decide.
		A myriad of misconceptions and intuition traps conspire to make compatibilism a difficult position both to accept intellectually, and to emotionally feel comfortable with.
		While modifying our intuitions about freewill and determinism are a prerequisite for understanding compatibilism, the intersection of the two views is probably the most counter-intuitive.
	www.optimal.org /peter/freewill.htm (11509 words)

	sueno_all hearts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		It is generally hoped that there is universal agreement about the intuitions that a thought experiment elicits.
		Daniel Dennett has derisively referred to thought experiments as "intuition pumps." One criticism that has been voiced is that some science fiction-type thought experiments are too wild to yield clear intuitions, or that any resulting intuitions could not possibly pertain to the real world.
		Another criticism is that philosophers have used thought experiments (and other a priori methods) in areas where empirical science should be the primary method of discovery, as for example, with issues about the mind.
	www.az2.co.uk /pics.htm (2047 words)

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		I take it there is at least a strong intuition here (i.e., to the effect that Mary's epistemic gap isn't merely due to her not having the right specific physical knowledge).
		It's arguable in turn that the point about analysis is itself grounded to some extent in intuitions about conceivability and epistemology, but note that these are now much more limited claims than the full-blown claims (concerning arbitrary physical facts) which we started with.
		I prefer to reserve the term "intuition" for the epistemic part, as the residual part is a matter of straight philosophy, not really intuition.) Another slight difference between zombie and knowledge intuitions.
	consc.net /class/596b/week2.txt (17916 words)

	FINAL DRAFT
		In fact it is a bad thought experiment, an intuition pump that actually encourages us to misunderstand its premises!” (Dennett, 1991, p398) In fact it is much more difficult to imagine the scenerio correctly than people suppose, so they imagine something easier, and draw their conclusions from that mistaken base.
		The standard presumption that Mary learns something, that Mary could not have figured out just what it would be like for her to see colors, is a bit of folk psychology with nothing but tradition–so far–in its favor.
		But that just shows how treacherous the original intuition pump is; it discourages us from even trying to imagine the task facing Mary if she wants to figure out what it is like to see red.
	ase.tufts.edu /cogstud/papers/RoboMaryfinal.htm (6614 words)

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