>> If your body of knowledge is a list of unconnected phenomena rather than a theoretical framework, you lose the ability to filter experimental results by whet

>> If your body of knowledge is a list of unconnected phenomena rather than a theoretical framework, you lose the ability to filter experimental results by whether they are surprising and represent a departure from theory. Sorry to make everything about AI and machine learning, but for a moment there, I thought this was precisely about AI and machine learning.