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>>5778333
philosophy is not merely a fun hobby. if you apply yourself to it seriously, its essentially training for improving your capacity for thinking. you get things like:
-thinking with more clarity
-learning to more efficiently apply different perspectives, switch between perspectives, consider different perspectives simultaneously
-improve your grasp of subtleties and nuances in thought
-thinking with depth, or examining the surface layer of a problem
-applying metaphors
-etc etc

any scientist good benefit from philosophical training