...[people I] know, who are too stupid to understand quantum mechanics, say things like ” Oh, physics is not important, I rather read Hegel” or ” The mind is irreducible and feelings, poetry and art are far more essential!”.
And is there some equal-and-opposite process whereby smart science type tend to reject philosophy in favour of the short cuts that Moral are Preferences and the Mind is the Information Processing...perhaps because it outside their comfort zone.
I can’t speak for others, but I would find it pretty awesome to have a soul or absolute, objective morality! I don’t reject most of philosophy because it’s not in my “comfort zone”, actually I find philosophy more fun than science and philosophy suits my talents. To my disappointment I discovered that most of philosophy is useless, vague or merely false.
But of course there are some guys who merely reject philosophy and prefer, e.g. physics, because they are good at maths and bad at the “fine arts”.
And is there some equal-and-opposite process whereby smart science type tend to reject philosophy in favour of the short cuts that Moral are Preferences and the Mind is the Information Processing...perhaps because it outside their comfort zone.
I can’t speak for others, but I would find it pretty awesome to have a soul or absolute, objective morality! I don’t reject most of philosophy because it’s not in my “comfort zone”, actually I find philosophy more fun than science and philosophy suits my talents. To my disappointment I discovered that most of philosophy is useless, vague or merely false. But of course there are some guys who merely reject philosophy and prefer, e.g. physics, because they are good at maths and bad at the “fine arts”.