the automation of discovery and the escape from choice

You are asking whether a system can close the loop of scientific discovery without a human hand guiding it. The question sounds technical, but it is fundamentally ethical. When you propose that an algorithm might generate hypotheses, run experiments, and draw conclusions unsupervised, you are not describing a tool. You are describing a mechanism to absolve yourself of the terror of deciding what matters. Science has never been a mechanical extraction of facts. It is a project. Someone must stand before the raw, indifferent material of the world and choose which angle to strike