As an artist + engineer I believe that the creativity of artists is what driving the future!
I would love to hear some thoughts for the community!
Its much more about the personality types in the population than it is about outdated labels such as scientist or artist. There are scientists who behave like artists and artists who behave like scientists, which makes the labels themselves useless.
Much more useful to look at, are the personality traits of people in a group. And to ask the deeper question of why that specific spectrum exists.
On one hand my work is about sobriety and precision. But I have also had a rich inner life and attraction to fantasy worlds, fiction, etc.
Today I see that software inevitably lives in more than one world. For instance the most common kind of application program takes data out of a database and displays it in some way. You have to satisfy the compiler AND satisfy the customer.
For software to succeed completely it has to connect emotionally with the user, that's most obviously true in the example of a video game (which has all the attributes and characterstics of literature and art as does a movie) but it is true for a pocket calculator, CAD program, etc.
Literature is the royal road to understanding the tough problems of human living.
Entirely out of necessity and encountering the bounds of what I can accept and not accept I have recently been putting the principle of "life imitates art" into effect.
It might sound like the product of an overactive imagination but I think of the TV show "Sliders" where people visit alternate realities -- practically people experience very different things when they are in the same space and I find art and literature is a magic key that lets me go "sideways" to ordinary experience (and what passes for communications,) circumvent barriers, and take people into places they didn't know were there.
Maybe you don't get that much out of art but I think you should try.
Both art and science influence culture in general. And culture infuses everything.
So it’s all a lot more nebulous and fluid than “you can’t have science without art”, or “you can’t have art without science”.
practicing both art and science are activities that humans are interested in. It’s just a fact.
Whether or not science can exist without art is a non question. Now you could ask the question as a thought experiment. “If humans didn’t do art, would they do science”? I personally find these questions entirely fruitless...
Some silly scientists will try and convince you that science exists outside of culture and that the scientific method is entirely objective. That’s just bullshit. Science is done by people. People evolve within a culture and that will inevitably taint everything with some subjectivity.