Theoretical physics is a separate specialty from experimental physics. Theoreticians create models (hopefully containing testable hypothesis), and applied physics designs protocols to disprove those hypothesis. This arrangement has worked well, don’t you agree?
Yes, other minds are a construct in your own mind. You cannot learn anything from them without fully reconstructing it yourself. Intellectual progress is fundamentally solitary, because you cannot bind partial understandings across minds. "We" cannot be the agent of thinking.
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That’s a weird statement coming from a scientist. Doesn’t such a notion strike at the heart of the scientific tradition of “standing on the shoulders of giants”? Indeed, it strikes at the heart of the scientific method itself which asserts that empirical validity is increased...
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... by the number of individuals who observe and measure the same phenomenon (scientific reproducibility).
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