Iain McGilchrist | Why science has becomes less creative #science #creativity #rutherford

[williamwalter]

"Committees are, by nature, timid. Based on the premise of safety in numbers, content to survive, rather than take risks and move independently ahead"... Dr. Ferdinand Porsche

[PJR]

What a beautifully succinct way of saying we are going backwards due to conformity... no this is not an ironic statement. He fit alot of points into one small burst of honesty. We have to appreciate this view and take a look at how we are now holding science back. The most important subject in terms of moving humanity forward

[Xalgucennia]

When I was doing my masters, I was bored and shocked at how much time was spent in group meetings formatting papers and fiddling with the margins so they confirm to the exact demands of the paper they were trying to publish.

[WizardryOfYogaTherapy]

Beautifully and courageously spoken...❤❤thank you

[dollarbar]

"Imagination is more important than knowledge" - Albert Einstein

[bernieflanders]

Love how Penrose laughs at the beginning and the timing 😂

[tamtrinh]

they had a breakthrough in the "science" of how to get money

[Mrdreadful]

Tale as old as time. We can never seem to get out of our own way.

[dk-zpze]

Maybe we've specialized so much in each field. We need experts from different fields to work on one problem.

[amosonyoutube]

Sometimes isolation is the best form of creativity

[DavidLukoson-omrl]

I think the main issue of science is relaying truths, creativity comes into play when passion is involved.

[aodhfinn]

A Brilliant man . Honest and brave, free thinking and insightful who brings new thinking .📯

[damianabbate]

I think this is true for nearly every human endeavor. At the beginning of anything people are able to do what they like until things become better understood and then become heavily constrained, costly and regulated. People's skills become more and more specialised which also narrows the freedom as we rely so much more on other specialists. Efficiency is one of the biggest constraints as well as everything from equipment and labour is just so costly. It's not just a single guy in the backroom of a university doing an experiment. It's just inevitable. It can be demonstrated from the sciences to the building trades.

[sinephase]

could it be more that there was a perfect storm of methodology and technology that led to this explosion in understanding and now we're trying to understand things that are so complex that it takes this level of organization to even get there?

[jcolinmizia]

I think he forgets that in the early 1900s the problems being faced in physics were problems that could be addressed at benchtop scales. Problems like the ultraviolet catastrophe or wave-particle duality could be studied at low energies. There are no more major problems at that scale. The unsolved problems are problems of high energy physics. That alone necessitates major collaborations.

[fjxcvcg]

Artists are also aware of a lack of individual creative epiphany among their own. A lot of art, always churning out, yet nothing truly unique, that was also keenly aware of where the art has been and where it might go.

The director of the NY Modern Art Museum said "If the new art made me uncomfortable I knew I was going the right direction."

The painter Murakami would give a group of students a kind of class with a hard deadline the students had to meet, all in the hope of creating the right balance of creative freedom and the visceral demands of daily life to foment the possibility of a spark becoming a blaze -- a new genius born. Most washed out, I think.

Robert Anton Wilson said it took about 60 years between real acceptance of the implications of the latest state of the art (ie. Einstein's Relativity) and using that knowledge to create theory for the direction of future technology. Think Moore's Law, but for human scientific progress. I dunno...

If history is any tell a nobody is sitting in the middle of nowhere working on something that will change the world.

Hey, it happens still today!

[Lily-lwmq]

Being someone in a big group like that, I see that this is completely true, they’re run by commonly accepted (and typically outdated) truths that are irrefutable

[lindafarwell]

A new society of thinkers from all disciplines must be established

[VolvoCommand]

As a counterpoint, the problems of science are now too large to be solved by a single creative mind. So a new important skill as a scientist is to foster collaboration and have excellent people skills. This is not what tortured geniuses in ivory towers like to hear.

[RandallvanOosten-lnwf]

Agreed, innovative breakthroughs have reduced precipitously.