S1E5: Thought Experiments

In this episode, we explore one of the most powerful tools of the human mind - the thought experiment. We tackle the following questions: 1. What is a thought experiment? 2. What are the abilities or strengths or capabilities of a thought experiment? 3. What are its weaknesses? 4. What is its main value? 5. How do you conduct a thought experiment? 6. What are some areas where thought experiments are most useful? 7. When running a physically impossible thought experiment, how can we keep it grounded in reality? 8. When running a historical counter-factual thought experiment, how can we draw conclusions, and what are valid conclusions from such a chaotic system? 9. What is the advantage of "Intuiting the Non-Intuitive" in a thought experiment?