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Wednesday, October 01, 2008
Is Art the future of Science?
I want to point out a lovely essay by Johan Lehrer that explores how esthetic and artistic explorations have influenced paradigm shifting insights in physics, psychology and neuroscience - metaphorical leaps that have broken the iron grip of models that have reached their dead end.
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Reminds me of just how often I've been using pipe cleaners and drawings to visualize quantum informatics, string diagrams and category theory.
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