To us, all life is a series of accidents, to be met with by improvisations. To them, all life is purposive and should be met by precalculation. - Isaac Asimov

老兄，你用这种牵强附会、不切实际、三流小说中的计划，是不可能解决谢顿危机的。

The entire world was one functional distortion. There was no living object on its surface but man, his pets, and his parasites. No blade of grass or fragment of uncovered soil could be found outside the hundred square miles of the Imperial Palace. No water outside the Palace grounds existed but in the vast underground cisterns that held the water supply of a world. The lustrous, indestructible, incorruptible metal that was the unbroken surface of the planet was the foundation of the huge metal structures that mazed the planet. They were structures connected by causeways; laced by corridors; cubbyholed by offices; basemented by the huge retail centres that covered square miles; penthoused by the glittering amusement world that sparkled into life each night.

You don't need schooling to be a philosopher. Just an active mind and experience with life.