Meenvailli, Dhiraj: Science: A Philosophical Note

Science is valuable because it is civilization’s way of turning Reality into survivable models. At the most basic level, every living thing is already doing a primitive version of science. A bacterium “tests” chemical gradients. An animal learns where food is. A child touches something hot and updates the model. A hunter learns tracks, weather, seasons, and animal behavior. A farmer learns soil, rain, pests, and timing. Life survives by modeling Reality well enough to act. So science is not some