Saturday 2 May 2009

The limitations of thought experiments

Sometimes I try my own thought experiment, which goes as follows: what if everyone is actually right? Aristotle and Plato; David and Goliath; Hobbes and Locke; Hitler and Ghandi; Tom and Jerry. Could that ever make sense? And then I think about my mother and I think that no, not everyone is right.
- Scarlett Thomas, The End of Mr. Y

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