I tend to think that science produces knowledge about the world, but this knowledge is inherently abstract - string theory, for example, where mathesis becomes almost autonomous. Art relates directly to reception, to consciousness - the experience of negatively curved space for example. The boundaries are indeed blurred, but are there. The problem (and interest) for me lies with science and cosmology; the universe appears increasingly 'alien' without the potential for modeling on a perceptual level: what does it mean to comprehend, say, our cosmos, if comprehension occurs only on the register of mathematical abstraction - and abstraction which may be inherently other (I'm thinking even of such things as the computer solution to the 4-color problem - issues of inelegance and ungainliness in physics/mathematics). - Alan
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