Let me propose an idea of mine as a playful concept: Science itself with all it’s tools, rules and rational objectivity (proving as much wrong as possible as I like to say) has the mission to paint an objective picture of reality. With scientific evolution, that picture is constantly in motion and gets painted and sometimes repainted over and over again. Many scientific fields started as philosophical fields, before the technologies or mathematical formulas became available to collect evidence and to prove theories. Philosophy itself is not science, neither is art, but there is the science of art and the science of philosophy. So just as an abstract concept I really like to think of science being another form of art. That also makes sense in regard to all the questions that remain to be answered for which we only have our human-centric frameworks available (logic may be one of them as we can only think in our dimensions), that allows a lot of blind-spots for things we can not see and may never see. When thinking about the meaning of our existence, being present as individual beings in the physical world, it strikes me how everything may be just a form of art, even the human consciousness that may be something so unique to the whole physical realm, that pure science is not able to capture it fully. Even we are not capable of understanding it fully, like the consumer of art never comprehends art in the way the artist imagined it and the way we perceive logic may be just human-centric as logic is currently not capable of understanding consciousness on the individualistic level, so how can science in it’s current state be also not just art?
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