Lindy,
Standing on the shoulders of giants, pygmies can sometimes see a few trees. <g>
Synthetic thinking is a sign of high-order intelligence. Moore, in understanding and articulating the whole gorilla game that nobody even saw before, exhibits that.
The work of Howard Gardner, at Harvard, has for decades shown there are multiple intelligences. One is not better than another, neither is one exclusive of another. (Goethe was both a great scientist and a great writer) In fact you might find it interesting that Gardner defines kinesthetic intelligence as a necessity in any good dancer.
It is not necessary to get a degree in science in order to understand it. I have in my hands a soon-to-be-published paper by one of the greatest cosmologists of our time, Lee Smolin, about the origins of life. I've shown this paper to my ex husband who is a very good friend and a scientist as well as a doctor, and he says it is pure genius, that it ends up accounting for many things nobody has ever explained--such as why we're built out of left-handed amino acids. The catch: the paper was written with Lee Smolin's good friend, Saint Clair Cemin, a sculptor. As Lee said to me in an email last week, "He is the most interesting sculptor working in New York. He is an old friend, and when I described to him the idea I was thinking about, he saw the point immediately and had the key idea that made the paper possible."
Jill |
