Science writers often get asked how to bridge the sciences and humanities, and frankly, I never know what to say. After all, math gets you much further in understanding quantum mechanics than sculpture or opera ever will. (Although an appreciation of Kafka helps.) Still, sometimes the humanities can inform science, even improve it. Science led me into an uncanny valley, and I learned a lot down there about how the brain works. But the humanities helped me scale my way out, and gain the kind of perspective that comes only from leaving a valley behind.
Posted on: Mon, 05 May 2014 16:07:09 +0000
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