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actually philosophy has significant practical value that is always needed and the unique misunderstanding/devaluement of it in our time only makes it needed even more. towers of science are to be toppled as they hit a wall and go down and down to philosophical questions and questions of worldviews and presuppositions.
as engineer-model pietro boselli says in agreement with the both of us
>'When and why did you choose engineering over maths?'
>I always loved maths for its purity, and physics for its beauty. But I soon realised how innovation in these fields now pushes into metaphysics and it has become something that will be discussed in philosophy books in the future, when all theories will have been confuted. I am very creative and too much “hands on” for this sort of endeavour, and I realised this very soon too. Engineering seemed like the perfect choice for me, since it allowed me to use the maths and physics I loved, to create things that "work in real life”.

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What was that? Speak up humanitiescel, don't mumble if you have something to say.

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>the 'quantum foam' explanation so many have seized upon as of late is just their way of backtracking and admitting that the ether really does exist but without explicitly acknowledging they were wrong.
That's only because the higher level is too complicated to study in full and the doctrine of mathematics and physics, which influence science at large, is to seek simplicity and generality. Consider not just the complexity of basic generalised phenomena, but the complexity of an organism, which biology barely scratches the surface of and yet still has dozens of different levels and angles for a single thing just to get a useful idea of how it works, let alone a truthful one.

Just because these tendencies are in place doesn't mean either have any bearing on how things 'really' are. It's more that they're part of the same tradition, the same doctrine.

>Male supermodel Pietro Boselli talks openly about his true passions: maths, turbines and the number eight
>When and why did you choose engineering over maths?
>I always loved maths for its purity, and physics for its beauty. But I soon realised how innovation in these fields now pushes into metaphysics and it has become something that will be discussed in philosophy books in the future, when all theories will have been confuted. I am very creative and too much “hands on” for this sort of endeavour, and I realised this very soon too. Engineering seemed like the perfect choice for me, since it allowed me to use the maths and physics I loved, to create things that “work in real life”.

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>>11351545
>Male supermodel Pietro Boselli talks openly about his true passions: maths, turbines and the number eight

>When and why did you choose engineering over maths?
>I always loved maths for its purity, and physics for its beauty. But I soon realised how innovation in these fields now pushes into metaphysics and it has become something that will be discussed in philosophy books in the future, when all theories will have been confuted. I am very creative and too much “hands on” for this sort of endeavour, and I realised this very soon too. Engineering seemed like the perfect choice for me, since it allowed me to use the maths and physics I loved, to create things that “work in real life”.
>I love engineering, everything manmade that surrounds us required so much thought and knowledge, and studying engineering really made me see things around me in a different light.

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https://www.theguardian.com/science/alexs-adventures-in-numberland/2015/jun/11/worlds-hottest-maths-teacher-pietro-boselli-interview

>When and why did you choose engineering over maths?
>I always loved maths for its purity, and physics for its beauty. But I soon realised how innovation in these fields now pushes into metaphysics and it has become something that will be discussed in philosophy books in the future, when all theories will have been confuted. I am very creative and too much “hands on” for this sort of endeavour, and I realised this very soon too. Engineering seemed like the perfect choice for me, since it allowed me to use the maths and physics I loved, to create things that “work in real life”.
>I love engineering, everything manmade that surrounds us required so much thought and knowledge, and studying engineering really made me see things around me in a different light. Also my way of tackling everyday problems and finding solutions has been affected.

>What was the subject of your PhD?
>I specialise in computational fluid dynamics, and more specifically as applied to the design of turbo machinery. My PhD research consisted of the modelling of wet steam flow in large turbines, and the invention of new algorithms to automatically modify turbine blades during the simulation of the fluid flow.