Outside the Lines With Rap Genius
OTL 61: Robert Greene Excerpt #4 “One Unified Brain”
Robert Greene: There's some things in the sciences that were cupped 20-30 years ago that were pulling way towards that. Things like complexity theory -- I don't know if you're up on that stuff -- or chaos theory. Where things are so complex that normal science actually doesn't really function anymore. Our linear logic way of thinking can't capture the reality, so science has to become more creative, more analogical. This whole complexity group of people have an approach to business, and economics. They look at all of the sciences, and it's actually verging on, coming full circle around to, poetry -- to looking at the universe in almost a poetic fashion. And then people in the arts are getting very excited by things that are happening in the sciences and incorporating that work, because, as I say, everything is actually unified. The brain doesn't come with compartments of science, technology, men, women, da di di da. It's just one brain. It's all there; it's unified; it's one whole thing. And so, that's the reality of the world we live in. The world isn't compartmentalized into these things. So the more you're able to get over those little irritating artificial divisions between fields, the closer you're getting to reality