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In Physics, the general feeling is that "philosophical interpretation" is simply out of the scope of our work. I think this derives mainly from the intensity and ultimate futility of the disagreements over the interpretation of quantum mechanics in the early 20th century. It's seen as a waste of time and a seed of acrimony that we're better off not indulging in as a field.


I think _delirium's point is that unconscious indulging in it is worse than conscious indulging in it.


Yeah, I have in mind more stuff like recent works by Penrose, Hawking, Krauss, etc. I don't have a problem with people abstaining from comment on implications/interpretations entirely, and many experimentalists would fall in that category. But many physicists seem to really want to write about interpretations and philosophy! Only, somehow, they don't want to call what they're doing "philosophy", because they look down on that.




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