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Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind. My name is Robert Lamb and I'm Joe McCormick and it is time to go into the vault because it is Saturday, of course, and we're bringing you an episode that originally air January 3rd, 2019.

That's right. What's inside the vault? I don't know what's not inside the vault. The thing inside the vault could be alive. It could be dead. It's kind of in a quantum position until we open it, right?

Oh, okay, this is our episode about thought experiments. Yeah, I remember we were asking the question, can you really prove anything with the thought experiment? Yeah, I think you can.

Yeah, I think we obviously were we're pro thought experiment on this show. We devote whole episodes to particular thought experiments. But I remember this was one where we're like, hey, let's stop and just actually discuss thought experiments, especially if we're going to keep invoking them on the show.

I say, let's get right into it. Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind from how stuff works.com.

Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind. My name is Robert Lamb and I'm Joe McCormick. Hey, Robert, what are we talking about today?

Oh, well, we're talking about thought experiments, the things that make some people really mad and make other people talk for way too long into time. Well, thought experiments can have both effects on an individual at the same time. That's the beauty of a thought experiment.

I think so. Now we've discussed individual thought experiments on the show many times before. But I think today we're going to try to look at the idea of a thought experiment.

Yeah, on the show in the past, we've talked about specific thought experiments. We've talked about Stredinger's cat. We've talked about the infinity hotel, the ship with theseus.

Other times it comes up kind of informally. We might say that a particular paper we're talking about is more can do a thought experiment. And I know that I've talked before about how I think of certain short stories as being more thought experiments than, you know, true narratives.

I think library of Babel library of Babel, other works of a lot of the short stories of your Huluis Borraes as well as a number of the short stories of Philip Cape Dick, the number of those where, you know, it's not really important who's doing what exact, you know, you're not you're not really invested in a story per say, but the story is there to to make you think to turn some sort of weird idea on its head concept driven more than character driven exactly.

Now I have to say that one of my favorite comical treatments of thought experiments is the humorous essay, Stredinger's cat by Steve Martin, collected in his 1998 book, Pure Drivel. And there's a wonderful audio book of this as well because Steve Martin himself is reading it.

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