A new way of thinking: why science needs philosophy + interdisciplinary thinkers are the future of innovation Problem of knowledge silos and stagnation of breakthrough innovation (esp physics/cosmology) There's some quote that there hasn't been an innovation in physics since the 1970s. And that's because all physicists ever think about is the supremacy of physics. And what happens in physics department stays in physics departments, even they are incredibly segregated and siloed as though condensed matter were somehow different than cosmology or understanding consciousness. Perhaps there's a reason why the higgs boson was called a God particle or perhaps physics is too wrapped up in the stuff of matter and thinking everything is a "particle," even things that clearly aren't massed matter like light (photons) and neutrinos Remember it's called a PhD science. Seems to forget that, as well as its Aristolian roots in philosophy Lots of examples where outsiders made breakthrough paradigm shifting innovations and surprisingly few examples where insiders and heavily siloed scientists did the same. Tendency toward confirmation bias and when you're in a silo you're reluctant to try to knock it down as outsider contrarians do but if there was nothing to knock down they wouldn't bother. So think about that. Your house isn't as sturdy as you think it is. We've forgotten falsification + the pursuit of Truth instead, worried about research budgets and faculties. And as I write this, American scientists are handwringing about cuts to science without actually examining why that may be. In fact, what have they done for us lately, most especually physicists aloof smashing particles and claiming they need even bigger multi-billion dollar particle accelerators to find mysterious so-called particles like gravitons that have absolutely no basis in reality, simply to preserve their own jobs and keep their research problems and research interests and programs going. And surely something will come of all these efforts given complexity. There's always an outcome, just not what is claimed. Has anyone looked to philosophy departments or posted breathlessly on social media about some breakthrough philosophy Discovery no of course not because they're not tangible and we like things that we think we can touch even so-called particles, but science would do well to look to the principles of ontology and metallogic to find its way forward through this morass of the particle zoo. Success in the past guarantees nothing in the future and if what you're doing or have been doing is no longer doing. Try something else! Look up and out instead of at your own naval