“Science consists exactly of those forms of knowledge that can be verified and duplicated by anybody.”
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Computers are famous for being able to do complicated things starting from simple programs.
Of course, not everybody's willing to go out and do the experiments, but for the people who are willing to go out and do that, - if the experiments don't work, then it means it's not science.
Something else has happened with computers.
What's happened with society is that we have created these devices, computers, which already can register and process huge amounts of information, which is a significant fraction of the amount of information that human beings themselves, as a species, can process.