PART 1: I feel that  Jonah Lehrer’s main argument is that art can be used to demonstrate and or help solve things in a scientific world.

-I feel like this guy is right. This is not only because I strongly feel that art can be brought in to any and every situation to help in most any way, but also because Lehrer makes some great point. I love especially when he talks about Bohr’s ideas and that the form of science was always going to be different, it depends on how you look at it. Just like a cube! A cube is part of geometry’s greatest hits, its used all the time in all kinds of art! I feel like he also backs it up when saying that in science, we think we know something, but there always turns out to be something more to look at, a different way to see something, to discover more. Bringing it back to the cube idea, it’s gonna look different at different angles, you’re going to find something new about it, it’s angles, or the way the light hits in in certain positions when you look at it in various ways.

PART 2:

 

  • Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle – It is the principle that, the position and the velocity of an object cannot both be measured exactly, at the same time, even in theory.
  • “The bridging principle” –  the difference between a mixture’s components and its classifications. It is used to classify untested mixtures.
  • Reductionism- The practice of analyzing and describing a “bigger picture” complex phenomenon with smaller phenomena that are held to represent a simpler or more fundamental level
  • Synapse- A connection between two nerve cells, that has about a minute wide gap across which impulses pass by diffusion of a neurotransmitter.
  • Epiphenomenon- A second reaction that arises from but does not causally influence a process, in particular.
  • Holistic perspective- A perspective where many different variables are taken into define and create a picture of the culture as a whole.
  • Metaphor- It is a figure of speech, like a sentence explaining another sentence in a way that the reader can relate to better to help them understand the idea of the original sentence.  

PART 3: 

I chose  Alexander Calder as my artist. The role he/his art plays in this essay is proof that at different angles, art doesn’t look the same, there is more to see. From different view points his piece, the Black Peacock, separate pieces on the mobile look like static spots of various sizes, but when you view of from different directions you see that actually each one “stimulates only the category of the cell that is selectively responsive to the direction in which the spot is moving.” It helps in supporting the essays idea that, art and science is different at different views, you never know everything and there is always more to see and know.

I chose Niels Bohr as my scientist. The role he/his ideas plays in this essay are very strong. In my opinion it’s like the back bone idea! Bohr, as mentioned previously, had the idea about electrons saying that the form that they to take depended on how one was to look at them. This is very easily comparable to the cube idea in saying that when you take different angles in looking at it, you’re going to get different results. And the fact that he and long been fascinated by cubist paintings anyway further helps in proving Lehrer’s point even more! They were talking about extremely similar if not the same ideas, connecting the cubist paintings idea to the idea that science can be viewed at different angles and can bee seen as different things.