Two Cultures

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/

an-update-on-cp-snows-two-cultures/

          In his book The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution, C.P. Snow argues that intellectual life in western society has been broken up into two cultures, that is, on the one side, you have the humanities, arts, and social sciences, and on the other, you have the sciences (4). In a recent interview with Steven Pinker, well-known and acclaimed psychologist contends that Snow traced this division back to the universities. Further, Snow claims that this separation has led to the inability to solve world problems due to mutual incomprehension between the two poles and "sometimes (particularly among the young) hostility and dislike, but most of all lack of understanding" (4). 
          This division between the humanities and sciences is most visibly seen at a public institution like UCLA. In my personal experience, during Transfer Bruin Day, I noticed this division quite clearly when my tour guide emphasized that the street between the humanities (now Kaplan Hall) and physics buildings is what separates North and South Campuses.

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          While the unnatural separation of the humanities and sciences is a development of the industrial revolution/enlightenment, Pinker notes that these disciplines are interconnected. While it was not visible in 1959, Pinker indicates that "studies of the arts can be illuminated by what we know from psychology, evolution, and brain science, on the mental faculties that are necessary to create and appreciate culture" (Interview with Steven Pinker). A great example he gives is how moral philosophy can not be understood without some understanding of moral psychology or how "film studies can be illuminated by human attention and visual cognition" (Interview with Steven Pinker). Further, Victoria Vesna in Toward a Third Culture: Being in Between, adds to existing literature by arguing that because "our work and tools are in constant flux, we are forced to articulate the reasoning and meaning informing the art we produce, which has traditionally been the role of art critics and historians. This creates room for an active dialogue with both humanists and scientists. Thus we are placed in between these "Two Cultures," which creates a triangle and promises the emergence of a third culture" (121). Other scholars like Stephen Wilson in Myths and Confusions in Thinking about Art/Science/Technology, notes that several art and technological developments are underway across the globe, but emphasizes that "the most interesting developments, however, will come when science and technology begin to be seen as the cultural activities that really are and when doing research becomes part of doing art" (5). 

https://terpenesandtesting.com/do-terpenes-bridge-the-gap-between-art-and-science/

References

Vesna, Victoria. "Toward a Third Culture: Being in Between." Leonardo, vol. 34, no. 2, 2001, pp.     

          121–125. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/1577014.

Snow, C.P. The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution. New York: Cambridge University Press,  

          1959. Print. 

Pinker, Steven. "Two Cultures." Seed Magazine. 

Bohm, D. "On Creativity." Leonardo, vol. 1, no. 2, 1968, pp. 137-149. JSTOR, 

          www.jstor.org/stable/1571951.

Wilson, Stephen. "Myths and Confusions in Thinking about Art/Science/Technology." Paper

          presented at College Art Association Meetings, NYC, 2000.