Any thoughts? I am just curious about how others define the nature of science.
Science is the observation and experimentation with the natural world.
Science is the construction of explanations expressed as natural language descriptions and/or mathematical descriptions of natural phenomena and/or imposed technical phenomena (engineering) mostly useful to predict how certain experimental configurations will behave.
Physics is just a bunch of equations used to predict how certain experimental configurations will behave. It is simply a tool. Maybe the ultimate elementary particle is the mind which cannot be decomposed into anything else, it is a monolithic slab of consciousness that cannot be reduced to anything, the scientific method of reductionism cannot be applied to the mind.
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