A word might be in order on what these musings are. What I like to do is the thought equivalent of experimental sketches. I like to build small parts of large ideas, and see how they fit, and what happens when I move them. As in drawing, sometimes if you move something just a little, one way or the other, the whole form changes.
And as in drawing, I am creating forms–rather, symbolic representations of what I believe to be external realities–which in general I try to formulate in such a way that predictions are possible. This roughly, if not exactly, hews to the scientific method, but as applied to the qualitative dimension of human experience (often, depending on the topic; sometimes things ARE directly measurable).
I do sketch after sketch after sketch, and periodically I “paint” something, which is a distilled argument on some topic or other which aims at both concision and thoroughness, which are two traits that are hard to combine.