The Value of Thought Experiments in Deflationary Accounts

Kathleen Wilkes: Thought experiments are only useful when you can establish the phenomenon. But she was singling out parfit among others as giving these thought experiments that we just don't understand what it would mean for two people to fuse together or, you know, one person to be branching out into five different people. And so like our intuitions on that are kind of worthless because we can't fully wrap our minds around what any of that would mean. I feel like there is a role for imagination that your view is not allowing for in philosophy where like, yeah, it does like no one's ever going to get to another solar system. It's true, but imagine that they