I am honestly interested

If you could lock any two people from history in a room indefinitely until they came to some sort of understanding, what two people would you choose?

I ask because it bothers me that every philosopher¹ has been attacking Rene Descartes since the 17th century and he doesn’t have a chance of defending himself.  Granted, he would probably lose a debate with just about any philosopher since Newton, but at least it’d be a fair fight.

So I guess my question is in two parts:  who would you choose and how long do you think it would take for them to agree?  Assume they live forever and you’re choosing them at the prime of their life.

(Side prompt:  What if you chould choose three?)

1. in logic, this would be written ‘(??)?’  Only not, because that would be wrong in any language[↩]

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