Jonah Lehrer’s main argument was very similar to Ma’s in that it argues that science really needs the arts to be able to operate especially in the future. He argues that disciplines like physics and psychology are struggling to find answers to important questions like where does consciousness come from and what is dark matter and is string theory true and stuff like that and he thinks that integrating more art into science could help give us the answer. I personally was skeptical of some of his points because he sort of acted like the imagination of artists yield data as trustworthy as scientific double and triple tested data which honestly just kind of reminded me of the results of scientific studies get absolutely butchered by the media into claiming something ridiculous and it kind of scares me that those people that make those media posts would get their hands on “subjective” data from artists who are trusted with producing the truth like a scientist and having their ideas butchered into something far worse.
Glossing: Heisenberg uncertainty principle- A scientific law that states that by nature you cannot determine an electrons position and momentum at the same time
Synapse: A synapse is the space between two neurons in which one neuron sends a chemical signal to the other via neuroreceptors and neurotransmitters.
Reductanism: The process of finding the answer to a complex process by breaking it down into simpler processes
