Blog #10

Jonah Lehrers main argument throughout the entire article is that science needs the arts. I agree on this topic as having a different perspective through the lens of an artist can expand many ideas that wouldn’t have been involved if the artist wasn’t part of the process. The artist can cause and spark something in the scientist that could be a rather small detail that they may have missed or something revolutionary. Lehrer quotes, “By heeding the wisdom of the arts, science can gain the kinds of new insights and perspectives that are the seeds of scientific progress.”

Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle – impossible to measure two of a quantum object simultaneously with infinite precision.

the bridging principle – “the neural event that would explain how the activity of our brain cells creates the subjective experience of consciousness”

reductionism – the practice of analyzing and describing a complex phenomenon in terms of phenomena that are held to represent a simpler or more fundamental level

synapse – point at which a nervous impulse passes from one neuron to another

epiphenomenon – a secondary effect or byproduct that arises from but does not causally influence a process, in particular

holistic perspective – interested in engaging and developing the whole person

metaphor – a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable

Virginia Woof – artist – tries to describe the mind from the inside – not through the eyes of a Nero scientists but rather her own as an artist

William James – scientist – wrote the textbook The principles of Psychology. “The Principles of Psychology, describe the mind in the conventional third-person terms of the experimental psychologist”

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