I think if I could have lunch with anyone living or dead I'd pick
Mary Baker Eddy. I think the mistake most people make with that question is picking someone just because they like them, or because they think they're especially smart. I'd pick Mary Baker Eddy because she had such a strange idea that's very internally consistent, and somehow she married it with Christianity. I'd like to try to grok her view of reality. And hear her reasoning on it. I think it'd be a good conversation.