I can certainly appreciate the "Practicalist" perspective. If I'm not going to directly use or encounter it in my daily life, why care? Why give it energy and effort?

Objectively, pretty much NOTHING "matters," except maybe for the pesky detail that most human innovation and progress is connected to our innate sense of curiosity about how things work, and in this case extended to people being part of things.

Yes, you can make the argument that you don't have to understand how a radio works in order to enjoy listening to music on one.

If there's a constant, it might me the utter IN-consistency of humans. When someone talks to God they are "spiritual" but when they talk to their dead grandmother they are mentally ill.

Why?