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Nature is not, but scientists are. A theory which humans can map onto experiences at their scale and use to make predictions via intuition is superior (for use by humans) to a theory which makes accurate predictions for inscrutible reasons--supposing their predictive power is equivalent. Beauty, I guess they call it. It leads to improved decision making, experimental design, etc.
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As a working scientist: chasing beauty is not a good way to do science.

> It leads to improved decision making, experimental design, etc

It does not. It often does the exact opposite.




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