"But all of that, this entire previous discussion, is something you could also say to an individual trying to understand, analyze, and improve spellsilver refining."

"What distinguishes 'SCIENCE!' from ordinary individual Lawful experimentation, with the explicit goal of probing for unexpected patterns or distinguishing among hypotheses already formed, is that it is a protocol for stacking the efforts of multiple individuals - the efforts, indeed, of all Civilization.  It's an artifact of Coordination in much the same way as Governance."

"What, do you suppose, would be the key ingredients of SCIENCE! as a multi-agent practice of Civilization?"

"But all of that, this entire previous discussion, is something you could also say to an individual trying to understand, analyze, and improve spellsilver refining."

"What distinguishes 'SCIENCE!' from merely ordinary individual Lawful experimentation with the goal of probing for unexpected patterns or distinguishing among hypotheses already formed, is that 'SCIENCE!' is a protocol for stacking the efforts of multiple individuals - the efforts, indeed, of all Civilization.  It's an artifact of Coordination in much the same way as Governance."

"What, do you suppose, would be the key ingredients of 'SCIENCE!' as a multi-agent practice of Civilization?"

"But all of that, this entire previous discussion, is something you could also say to an individual trying to understand, analyze, and improve spellsilver refining."

"What distinguishes 'SCIENCE!' from merely ordinary individual Lawful experimentation with the goal of probing for unexpected patterns or distinguishing among hypotheses already formed, is that 'SCIENCE!' is a protocol for stacking the efforts of multiple individuals - the efforts, indeed, of all Civilization.  It's a designed artifact-shadow of Coordination in much the same way as Governance."

"What, do you suppose, would be the key ingredients of 'SCIENCE!' as a multi-agent practice of Civilization?"