Sorry, but Philip K. Dick beat you to it in his short story "Service Call". He didn't call it a thought vehicle though, so as far as I know you came up with that one first.
I already came up with this idea, about five years from now, and I went on to write a book about it. Nobody has bought it yet, but they soon will have. The important thing is that my lawyers are currently on their way to about an hour ago to prevent you from writing that entry, which you were going to steal from my book. Obviously, they havent gotten there yet, because as soon as they do, I will never have written this reply. They will also sue you for 500,000 dollars which I will have received yesterday. The best part is, you can't do anything about it because by the time I'm done (which already happened), none of this will have happened at all.
BTW, the Temporal Lawyers are not a problem, because when you're done with them, you can prevent them from having been invented.
Faith is the assured expectation of things hoped for, the evident demonstration of realities though not beheld. - Hebrews 11:1
True faith is never blind; it is based on facts and experience. It is not required because of the absence of evidence, but because something can't be seen. Kind of like how we believe that we are made of atoms, though we can't see of feel them. We are persuaded of their existence by scientists we respect. Faith works the same way. So don't be so quick to dismiss ALL religion as blind and ignorant. And don't feel all superior because you call your faith "empiricism" or whatever.
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Sorry, but Philip K. Dick beat you to it in his short story "Service Call". He didn't call it a thought vehicle though, so as far as I know you came up with that one first.
BTW, the Temporal Lawyers are not a problem, because when you're done with them, you can prevent them from having been invented.
True faith is never blind; it is based on facts and experience. It is not required because of the absence of evidence, but because something can't be seen. Kind of like how we believe that we are made of atoms, though we can't see of feel them. We are persuaded of their existence by scientists we respect. Faith works the same way. So don't be so quick to dismiss ALL religion as blind and ignorant. And don't feel all superior because you call your faith "empiricism" or whatever.