I always wanted to go into research. When I floated the idea to my fav professor in college, he asked me: do your parents have the money to send you abroad? I said no fking chance lol. He said then get a real job, research in India is a humiliation ritual.
The New York Times once wrote that “Richard Rorty has become the most influential contemporary philosopher by not offering any [philosophy].” I think that’s very funny and also pretty accurate (but not in a pejorative sense).
That’s a bad thought experiment. Coming from misplaced definition of general intelligence.
Coming up with relativity is peak of human imagination and thinking capacity.