[sampo]

> I’m probably way off base and I’m probably missing some insights that I could get by going to school

A school would usually teach the "shut up (about philosophy) and calculate" approach. These philosophical problems about the meaning of quantum mechanics have been with us for 100 years, and mainstream physics sees them as too hard or even intractable, and thus as waste of time.

[tbrownaw]

Hard /intractable is on an axis orthogonal to philosophical stuff like meaning.