This is a short film that considers the so-called “two culture” divide between the Arts and the Sciences.
Behind the graph lie a million stories:
To play this short film please click here or on the image above
The film begins with old footage of one of my ‘common place’ notebooks (written in my grandfather’s old receipt books for his orchard). My marginalia question if science has been ‘divorced’ from the humanities?
The film then considers language and science. Has humanity just one language? Can any language fully “translate” experience? Where do numbers (mathematics) fit into language?
This film is for Raymond Tallis, Eric Matthews and Patrick Geddes.
Music credit:
“Lost Prince” – Terry Davies and Orchestra (BBC production)
Footnote:
Many years ago I contributed to social media. One psychiatrist, Dr Samei Huda, a Member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, repeatedly dismissed the medical humanities. He did so in one sentence. I sought to find reasonable middle ground beyond his extreme view, but failed.