Arguing 0 and 1 are not probabilities with most people is a waste of time, and eliciting probabilities is also mostly a waste of time. Step 1 is to teach the fundamental move of considering the other possibility at all; asking whether they can mentally inhabit the world in which life only exists on Earth.
Arguing 0 and 1 are not probabilities with most people is a waste of time, and eliciting probabilities is also mostly a waste of time. Step 1 is to teach the fundamental move of considering the other possibility at all; asking whether they can mentally inhabit the world in which life only exists on Earth.