Estoy incrementando mi nivel de frustración al intentar escribir aquello que sigo prometiendo desde hace tanto tiempo (namely, my novel). He aprendido muchísimo en el proceso pero llegando ya a muchos callejones sin salida. A veces me siento como Ignatuius Reilly, escribiendo seis renglones al mes, o como George Lucas escribiendo The Phantom Menace.
Entre mis hallazgos se encuentra esta respuesta que dió Chris McKinstry en Slashdot, sobre la frontera entre ciencia y espiritualidad. Estoy seguro de que algún día la relevancia este personaje aumentará muchísimo:
4) Division between Science and SpiritualityPero borrar la frontera, difícil.
by ParticleGirl
I am continuously frustrated that people's general perception seems to be that science and art, spirituality, and so forth are divided by an uncrossable schism. People feel the need to pit science against spirituality; logic against intuition. It is a rare thing that people accept the idea that these are different ways of approaching the same reality. As a dreamer and artist as well as a respected scientist, what do you say to people who doubt that scientists can be spiritual and artistic people?
Chris: Science for me at least, is concerned with the external, the measurable; while art is concerned with the internal and immeasurable. Every scientist knows measurement can only go so far; that nature at its most fundamental is immeasurable. Unfortunately many scientists turn away from what they can't measure (and conversely, many artists turn from measurement) instead of finding some way, any way to express it. It is this turning away or fear of the immeasurable (or many artist's converse fear of reduction to measurement) that creates doubt; that separates science from art. The scientist can learn that one does not become any less of a scientist for attempting to express the inexpressible or attempting to measure the immeasurable, just as the artist can learn that because we are neurons and our neurons atoms, doesn't mean we are any less human.
P.D. Estoy interesadísimo en conversar con cualquier persona que haya conocido personalmente a Chris McKinstry, estoy escribiendo sobre él y cualquier ayuda a mejorar el conocimiento que tengo sobre él será grandemente apreciada.
