I am not claiming that they exist. I am asking you to consider what you would do in the hypothetical in which you are convinced that they exist.
Replace “you” with “the hypothetical you who is attempting to convince hypothetical me they exist”, then
In the scenario I postulated elsethread, I specified that hypothetical you was exploring the problem by themselves, no external person involved, which I think most closely captures the thought experiment as it is intended.
I am not claiming that they exist. I am asking you to consider what you would do in the hypothetical in which you are convinced that they exist.
Replace “you” with “the hypothetical you who is attempting to convince hypothetical me they exist”, then
In the scenario I postulated elsethread, I specified that hypothetical you was exploring the problem by themselves, no external person involved, which I think most closely captures the thought experiment as it is intended.