{"id":2177,"date":"2014-02-10T09:51:21","date_gmt":"2014-02-10T09:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2014\/02\/10\/the-problem-of-the-two-cultures-is-not-in-fact\/"},"modified":"2015-01-04T17:06:52","modified_gmt":"2015-01-04T16:06:52","slug":"the-problem-of-the-two-cultures-is-not-in-fact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2014\/02\/10\/the-problem-of-the-two-cultures-is-not-in-fact\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>The problem of \u201cthe two cultures\u201d is not, in fact, a problem at all. There\u2019s a reason that art and science are distinct. They don\u2019t just work in different ways; they work on different things. Science addresses external reality, which lies outside our minds and makes itself available for objective observation. The arts address our experience of the world; they tell us what reality feels like. That is why the chain of consilience ruptures as we make the leap from material phenomena to the phenomena of art.<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"attribution\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newrepublic.com\/article\/116170\/jane-austen-game-theorist-michael-suk-young-chwe-joke\">&#8216;Jane Austen, Game Theorist&#8217; by Michael Suk-Young Chwe Is a Joke | New Republic<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p>I need to learn more about the \u201cdisciples of consilience\u201d and the \u201cscience studies hucksters\u201d mentioned here. Would these include Latour and co? I enjoyed the article and can get behind the thrust of it (humanistic knowledge has value in and of itself) but at the same time I am not convinced art and science are distinct to the extent that they do not and should not interact.<\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The problem of \u201cthe two cultures\u201d is not, in fact, a problem at all. There\u2019s a reason that art and science are distinct. They don\u2019t just work in different ways; they work on different things. Science addresses external reality, which lies outside our minds and makes itself available for objective observation. The arts address our &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2014\/02\/10\/the-problem-of-the-two-cultures-is-not-in-fact\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[983],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-tumblr","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}