I’m going to go completely off-topic but the idea of conversing with mighty philosophers has always frightened me immensely. I’m not a genius or a published philosopher, I don’t even have a degree in philosophy but even then I have read a fair amount of text and have been seeking to further increase my understanding and interpretation of said texts. That being said, conversing or debating with those kind of philosophers would have left me either awestruck for weeks, completely convinced of whatever they told me or in a worst case scenario, completely hopeless and full of doubts. I would love to converse with those philosophers, some living and others dead but I don’t really know if that would be healthy for me.

Anyways, sorry for hijacking your comment.