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Card #c728IR // #c728Synthesis

scientists are very much like artists. They actively select experiments in search for simple but new laws compressing the resulting observation history.

— In our words · Source: Driven by Compression Progress (Jürgen Schmidhuber)

[Use when]

Use when anyone insists science and art run on different fuels.

[Why it matters]

Collapses the two-cultures wall: the physicist's experiment and the painter's canvas are the same move — generate data governed by previously unknown regularities.

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