Jim: > science, however, is a social activity in search of > consensus ( ... ), unlike art or music.
I am not so sure. The way I see it, all of these activities are in search of consensus and in all of them there are deviants. And it is thanks to these deviants that there is progress or, better said, change in all of them. These deviants are the ones who manage to change the existing forms and norms to new ones. And one day, some new deviants come and change the forms and norms the old deviants constructed to new ones, and the spiral continues. Best, Sabri
