From the series "Philosophical Parables"

One day, Lenin died and ceased to exist.

And suddenly, Ernst Mach appears to him and says,
“Gedankenexperiment.”

And at that moment, Lenin realized that this whole thing was some kind of prank. Since the objects of the objectively existing external world no longer existed, Lenin couldn't throw, say, a glass at Mach. So he decided to take a different approach.

Lenin simply followed Mach’s advice and imagined a monkey typing on a typewriter. Every time the monkey produced something meaningful, an angel would fly down and give it a banana. In this way, the monkey gradually grew smarter and began typing completely coherent texts.

“Alright, so what follows from this?” Lenin pondered. He didn’t need to rush his answer, because eternity lay ahead of him.

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