Blog 10

Blog post #10: Share your choice quotes that support your debate stance and list at least 2 items of supporting evidence

For Inviting Art into The Scientific Process.
Creating analogies to better understand science:

Pinker Article Quote: “A consilience with science offers the humanities countless possibilities for innovation in understanding. Art, culture, and society are products of human brains” (Pinker 10). By allowing art to be integrated with our education, it could make certain topics easier to understand and grasp by creating analogies. For example, in biology, my professor strives to make the many different comparisons of scientific ideas like comparing competitive inhibitors of enzymes to someone inserting and breaking a stick into a lock. This way of learning allows us to create imagery of the scenario in simpler terms.

Yo-Yo Ma Article Quote:

“Only when those meridians or pathways that connect the edges to the middle are open will a life-form survive, and even prosper. Only when science and the arts, critical and empathetic reasoning, are linked to the mainstream will we find a sustainable balance in society” (Ma 4). In this quote, Ma describes how there needs to be a combination of the arts with science to create an equilibrium where they can both be integrated equally, and ideas can be shared through both topics. If these two topics or any topics, in general, didn’t overlap, many ideas would still be unsolved today. For example, Lehrer mentioned in his article how some ideas in neuroscience were unsolved, but by combining art with science they were able to be resolved.

Lehrer Article Quote:

Involving the arts with science can lead to new discoveries:

“Its goal will be to cultivate a positive feedback loop, in which works of art lead to new scientific experiments, which lead to new works of art and so on” (Lehrer 7). By involving art with the scientific process, it could lead to new discoveries to be made and could allow scientists to think outside the box. By creating a “fourth culture”, science and art can be combined, and both can be used to explain theories and create different questions. By forming new questions, scientists will be able to conduct different experiments and find new truths about the world and its functions.