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It is often said that experiments should be made without preconceived ideas. This is impossible.
--Henri Poincare, Science and Hypothesis.
This brings to mind the idea of correlation vs. casualty.
There is the idea that the mind will recognize the combination of multiple sensations as correlation and from that it will develop conceptional reality.
The process of going from correlation to that of causality is one of the process' of science.
Conception, which includes science, is part of the learning process, which should be held as one of the most basic principles of not only human, but of evolutionary process'.
Experimentation requires no preconception,it is part of the evolutionary process' and it happens regardless of the cognitive state.
Preconception is impossible without experimentation.