[thinkingemote]

One way that scientists test is to use modality agnostic language. For example something like "imagine going to a store to shop for a new sofa. You find one and imagine where it would go in your room."

Then you change or introduce things "make the sofa 50% smaller" then a bit more "change the colour of it to deep yellow" etc

Or imagine getting on a bus and their is only one seat left.