Why are nature and human imagination different things? We are elements of nature as much as everything else. The discovery lottery is not much different than ev

Why are nature and human imagination different things? We are elements of nature as much as everything else. The discovery lottery is not much different than everywhere else. You work very hard on an important problem and if you're extraordinarily lucky then you become famous/get rich/get discovered/land an acquisition. I think a core similarity with those all is that it's healthier and more fulfilling if you're sustained by the process, not just the wildly rare best-chance ending. Anyway, why are we being brainwashed to like science? Probably because we, as a society, respect and value the effects that you can trace right back to science. Same with art and creativity, really. If you want to have this argument you've got to get a lot more subtle and talk about real comparisons between the two professions.