Prompt: Ideal relationship between art and sciences inside the projected career path or current discipline.

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I personally feel in the field of physical therapy both science and arts go hand and hand amongst that career. The way that Yo-Yo Ma describes the arts to incorporate empathy I feel is one of the most needed things to be a successful physical therapist. If it was not for the empathy towards your client their strive to get better would not be achieved,  and if they keep failing rather than just giving up on them as a “lost hope”, you need the empathy to be able to keep motivating them and being able to still give them positive attitudes even when failing to achieve a certain goal. Physical Therapy of course has  strong relations to the science field as most of my classes in university are geared towards scientific learning  and thought processes. One thing I feel that UNE does really well, for being a well known science school, requires all students to at least one fine arts program, which I feel is great because the learning and throughout processes in those class may better shape the learner you are, or provide you with new ideas to use in your science fields. Lehrer’s paper is a great way to describe the sciences and arts in the path I am going towards. A lot of his arguments are that science needs art in order to keep finding out new information about the world around us and I believe that pertains to my career. There are numerous new amounts of research and information being done towards new methods of healing a body and the body itself. I feel like the arts play a key component in allowing us to believe that there are new forms of processes and ideas to look into when looking at the human body and I feel these arts have shaped the career of physical therapy to what it has became today. Pinker’s ideas I feel did not have to much connection in my field, I can see others where they may be over done with the science concepts but I truly feel that there is a balance between the arts and sciences in the field of Physical Therapy.

Pinker to Ma

Both Steven Pinker and Yo-Yo Ma argue that the science as a whole can not stand alone without the help of many other sources of incorporation. Where in Ma’s essay “Necessary Edges: Arts, Empathy, and Education” he believes that the incorporation of arts and empathy must be used in the sciences or there will ultimately be a standstill in advances in the scientific fields. He shows this through quotes such as “values of collaboration, flexibility, imagination, and innovation- all skill sets needed in today’s world- is through the performing arts”. This shows us his believe that the idea of the science if rather than trying to distinguish themselves from the fields of art should all collaborate in order to advance the scientific fields. To be able to conceptualize the tough data and presentations of the sciences, arts are key in being able to turn that information into understandable meanings for the general public. On the other end, Steven Pinker in his essay “Science Is Not Your Enemy” argues that religion should be taken part alongside the sciences. He compares the sciences to religion with the quote “Just as reviled is the application of scientific reasoning to religion; many writers without a trace of a belief in God maintain that there is something unseemly about scientists weighing in on the biggest questions. With this he looks towards the religions in the sense that the information that is portrayed is truthful because “it is” and “it says so” and therefore that trend in some senses could be used in the sciences. Rather than having to argue and validate every single point of info and data that comes up in scientific research some of the info should just be what data was found and left there “as is”. These writers believe that the sciences is necessary in every day of life, but it can not be by itself, with the incorporation of many other ideas or arts the science as a whole could be improved.

Pinker to self

As Pinker states in his essay “Science Is Not Your Enemy”  how the use of religion should be incorporated into some of the sciences, I agree with his stand to a certain degree. He Starts off his essay with mentioning innovators in the field of the sciences such as “Descartes, Spinoza, Hobbes, Locke, Hume, Rousseau, Leibniz, Kant, Smith” showing us his stand on who he believes the sciences have been formulated from. With the quote “I often long to travel back in time and offer them some bit of twenty-first-centuary freshman science that would fill a gap in their arguments or guide them around a stumbling block” shows us the advances that have came about from today’s development in the sciences due to the facts of continually looking into one thing over and over finding new and important information to the subject at hand. What Pinker is arguing with this point is that in a sense they are losing their credibility because they missed key points all over their original points they had brought up. I agree upon his argument as he continues through his essay that science should incorporate the teachings of religion. Religion has a concept that no matter what the information provided “is what it is” their is no further investigation and therefore the sciences should take that into consideration so that these founders of sciences have the ability to say their findings “is that and only that”.