I don’t want to engage further, will just leave a recommendation here to listen to (or read the transcripts of) Sean Carroll’s podcasts, especially solo ones, those with other prominent physicists working in foundations and the AMAs. It might give you better insights into what professional physicists do and think. A few links:
Thanks for the recommendations. I love Sean Carroll’s way of thinking. It was exactly this philosophical and “supra-universal” way of thinking that I was trying to defend in my original post, although I apparently did a poor job at it. Anyway, great recommendations!
I don’t want to engage further, will just leave a recommendation here to listen to (or read the transcripts of) Sean Carroll’s podcasts, especially solo ones, those with other prominent physicists working in foundations and the AMAs. It might give you better insights into what professional physicists do and think. A few links:
https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2022/06/06/200-solo-the-philosophy-of-the-multiverse/
https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2023/01/09/222-andrew-strominger-on-quantum-gravity-and-the-real-world/
https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2022/11/21/218-raphael-bousso-on-black-holes-and-the-holographic-universe/
https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2021/05/31/149-lee-smolin-on-time-philosophy-and-the-nature-of-reality/
https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2021/01/18/130-frank-wilczek-on-the-present-and-future-of-fundamental-physics/
Thanks for the recommendations. I love Sean Carroll’s way of thinking. It was exactly this philosophical and “supra-universal” way of thinking that I was trying to defend in my original post, although I apparently did a poor job at it. Anyway, great recommendations!