Emily Adlam
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Powell And I think I think there's a place for the wild speculation.
I think you know cre creative ideas come out of that.
And I think it you know I think it is important to have people doing that kind of thing.
Uh
You know, I think it it is th I think as you would agree, important to keep track of the fact that that's what you're doing and recognize that you're in the process of creative idea generation and perhaps not making a rigorous argument and also recognize when is the right moment to tr to transition from doing the wild speculations to trying to make it more rigorous and you know, not not not go too far in that direction.
So I yeah, I think uh you know, one thing philosophy can can can do perhaps is is sort of
pr provide a different methodological approach to these things and perhaps sort of act as a a sort of check on what's going on and and allow us to see that those things from a different point of view.
Well, I think it's, you know, b both you and I trained originally as physicists because I guess we were both interested in contributing to the progress of science and, you know, transitioned into philosophy.
And I I certainly didn't do that because I was no longer interested in contributing to the progress of science, but because I felt that that was the best way that I personally with with
the kind of person I am and my skills could do that.
And I would imagine for you it's you know, similarly, you're not it's not that you have withdrawn from contributing to science, but that you see this is the best way to to do this.
I think what I would say is that you know, even even things that are taking place in physics, I think you often see, particularly at the inception of new research programs, a lot of thinking that I would classify as philosophical.
If you if you read, I think, you know, the early papers on holography when some of those ideas are coming out, there's a lot of very philosophical thinking that is is going into that kind of kind of thing.
That's thinking about you know the the meaning of information or the meaning of a surface and sort of doing thought experiments and all these kinds of things.
Kinds of things.
So I think if you look at the way these things are actually developed, like philosophy in some sense is playing a major role in that.
And perhaps that that could be a fruitful way in which philosophers could talk to physicists more in that sort of period and sort of get more input into that kind of philosophical process that is happening at the inception of a research program or the inception of new ideas.
physics are completely separate and the the physicists just calculate things and the philosophers just
say words.
It's just it has never been true.
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