The Dreaded Thought Experiment

I’m not sure they’re designed to rile you up.

I like to think we can talk about the world even if we’re really different.

A thought experiment is an opportunity to engage one’s imagination in what may be a totally new way. To examine a problem, or a situation, or a sociocultural norm — anything, really — in a way one hasn’t done before.

For a certain period of my life I was married to a philosopher. Those people live for thought experiments. I remember…