Science improves our ability to control and predict the future. Music stirs emotion. Cooking produces food. What does art do? I think one reason this is an interesting question is that art usually produces an artifact, so when we think of “what is art” we think of the artifact, like Jackson Pollock’s art being the paintings or Toni Morrison’s writing being the “art” of her writing. But in science, we don’t take the conclusion of a research paper like “X gene has a Y% correlati...
