Another way to frame this dichotomy is between generalists and specialists. As I like pointing out, there is a reason why the people running armies are called generals, while specialist is about one rank above private.

The problem is those with a broad point of view tend to be picked apart on the details, or ignored, when those with particular skill sets feel threatened.

So those specialities can go pretty far astray, before they can be called out.

For example, we are mobile organisms, necessitating a sequential process of perception, in order to navigate, then tell stories to one another and build civilizations out of the collected knowledge, so the linear progression of time is foundational to our sense of reality, yet time is not so much the point of the present moving past to future, as it is change turning future to past. Potential, actual, residual. Tomorrow becomes yesterday, because the earth turns.

It’s a bit like seeing and trying to explain the sun and stars moving east to west, before realizing the earth is turning west to east.

There is no physical dimension of time, because the past is consumed by the present, in order to inform it. Causality and conservation of energy.

So time is an effect, like temperature, pressure, color, etc. Think frequencies and amplitudes.

Yet the current geometric modeling of time, as “spacetime,” can’t even explain why time is asymmetric and resorts to entropy. Though what is being measured, action, is inertial. The earth only turns one direction.

So the math wizards have taken over physics and now we have multiworlds and eleven dimensional string theory.

Brilliant on the details, but no clue how to put it all together.

Remember, epicycles were brilliant math, but the crystalline spheres were lousy physics.

Keep that in mind, the next time another STEM major looks down their nose at your interest in philosophy.