Reply #6: I do think it is possible to develop a philosophy FROM physics

[derby378]

I do not subscribe to any sort of "create your own reality" whimsy. Things happen. They just are. And it drives some of the smartest among us to explore, probe, and measure in order to determine why things are the way they are.

And, in so doing, I think physics can overlap philosophy and shape a person's outlook on the grand scheme of things. It's kind of like Thoreau arging in Walden that literature should not be used as a sole means of transcendence - you have to actually walk out the front door and experience the trees, the birds, the cows, the ringing of church bells, the rustling of human transporation, the feel of the breeze.