Professor Peter Adamson explains the thought experiment of Avicenna known as the ‘floating man.’

Avicenna, (Latinate form of Ibn-Sīnā, Persian: پور سینا / ابن سینا‎‎;,) full name Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Al-Hasan ibn Ali ibn Sīnā (c. 980 – June 1037) was a Persian polymath who is regarded as one of the most significant thinkers and writers of the Islamic Golden Age. Of the 450 works he is known to have written, around 240 have survived, including 150 on philosophy and 40 on medicine.

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