Jonah Lehrer’s main argument is that science needs the arts to be able to answer to questions that science can’t answer. I think that this is interesting but I don’t totally agree. The world is constantly changing and when science does make a discovery it is no longer relevant because there is something new happening. Art is important in science when it comes to making models or structures of certain concepts, but I don’t know if art can help when it comes to making discoveries. In Lehrer’s essay when he talks about metaphors in physics, it’s interesting because I never really thought about metaphors in physics before. My issue with this is that it creates false illusions. The physicists are comparing concepts to things that humans actually know, but that concept could be completely different which makes the metaphor false. Science is based on fact and proven theories and that’s how it will always be. Humans only believe things that have hard facts or statistics that can back it, so nothing can be fictional because nobody will believe it. I think that art and science should come together when it comes to making models, but when it comes to new discoveries or concepts I think it should be strictly science because they are still struggling to figure it all out.

1. Reductionism- is any of several related philosophical ideas regarding the associations between phenomena which can be described in terms of other simpler or more fundamental phenomena.
2. Holistic Perspective-in medicine as an alternative approach to healing that takes into account the person as a whole as opposed to just one specific ailment.
3. Epiphenomenon- a secondary effect or byproduct that arises from but does not causally influence a process.