"a conception of things that can never be determinate and grasped in their totality; it is an open, amorphous, ongoing dialogue with the universe, which is to say that the universe interacts with itself, since the knower, who dialogues with the known, is part of that selfsame known.” (unthinking, p. 103)

"the paradigmatic form of this “mental grasp of things” is by way of the “thought experiment,”an act of mind beyond experience […] which, in a manner of speaking, at least simulates one's being outside while remaining within.” (unthinking p.103-104)