So I majored in Philosophy; there are a lot of confusions about how things work in philosophy and I just want to try to clear the air if possible. As a regular practice, philosophers do something called creating 'thought experiments,' and a lot of the time people ask me why we do thought experiments and not just regular experiments like biologists. It's a fair question, and let me put the answer to you this way: Do you have any idea how expensive beakers are? I mean my god, it might be that biologists and "physicists" are made of money, I don't know, I'm not a chemist, but I do know that it I can just use my sheer, god-given (maybe?) brain-power to think of an experiment that's twice as powerful and unlikely as any experiment done by traditional, big-buck 'science-ologists' and 'techno-crats' while spending not one iota of grant money on it, then at the end of the day what has two thumbs and can afford to buy a Wii?

'And that's something to think about!'

-- Mike "Thinkomopolis" Blejer