> I'd have loved to have been around this intellectual tour de force when I was studying those subjects

You get to do something they could only dream of back then - fast forward the wheels of history 100 years past two world wars to the age of science fiction where machines can think and speak, planet earth grows food for 8 billion people, and the moon is littered with human footprints from a generation ago.

Those philosophers would love nothing more than to spend an hour with you listening to your descriptions and thoughts about the world you live in.