Dear Luca,
I read your essay with great interest. I fully agree with your conclusion:
«Given the uniqueness of each human being and of humanity also moral categories come into play. Something completely out of the scope of physics. We have to take responsibility for our future. How to steer the future of humanity? Use science in the best way possible but know its limitation in describing what is really out there.»
Physics experiencing a "crisis of interpretation and representation" (T. Romanovskaya), "crisis understanding", deep methodological crisis that was well said Carlo Rovelli article SCIENCE IS NOT ABOUT CERTAINTY: A PHILOSOPHY OF PHYSICS:
«This is a standard idea of how science works, which implies that science is about empirical content, the true interesting relevant content of science is its empirical content. Since theories change, the empirical content is the solid part of what science is. Now, there's something disturbing, for me as a theoretical scientist, in all this. I feel that something is missing. Something of the story is missing. I've been asking to myself what is this thing missing? I'm not sure I have the answer, but I want to present some ideas on something else which science is.
This is particularly relevant today in science, and particularly in physics, because if I'm allowed to be polemical, in my field, in fundamental theoretical physics, it is 30 years that we fail. There hasn't been a major success in theoretical physics in the last few decades, after the standard model, somehow. Of course there are ideas. These ideas might turn out to be right. Loop quantum gravity might turn out to be right, or not. String theory might turn out to be right, or not. But we don't know, and for the moment, nature has not said yes in any sense.
I suspect that this might be in part because of the wrong ideas we have about science, and because methodologically we are doing something wrong, at least in theoretical physics, and perhaps also in other sciences.»
In your essay key concepts "structure" and "state". Here it is necessary to add a third concept, a single for "lLfeWorld" (E.Husserl) and the world of physics - the concept of "meaning." In Heidegger, "the meaning is in the direction of what ...". that is
meaning its deep essence - "vector" (in Latin - "carrier"). To understand ("grab") the primordial structure of being and then "grab" the essence and nature of the information and time necessary to build (construct) absolute (unconditional) generating structure (David Gross: " general framework structure"), the same for all levels of whole being of the Universe . Then we get a unified picture of the world as physicists. and for lyrical, meaningful "LifeWorld." Unified picture of the world gives hope to mankind more reliable steer the Future.
I invite you to my forum and my essay FQXi Essay 2012-2013.
I wish you good luck!
All the Best,
Vladimir