scientist maybe a mathematician an
engineer doesn’t matter what matters is
that it has a linear thinking it
believes in logic and facts to prove his
point person B is an artist it will be a
painter
maybe a writer it has big dreams it
follows his intuition and creativity so
I want to ask you a question do you
consider yourselves more like person a
or like pursue me come on the ones that
think that they’re more like personally
brace or your hands a scientist okay
okay be artists okay interesting so I’ve
seen that many of you haven’t raised
your hand I hope it’s not because you’re
shy but maybe because you don’t feel
represented by those stereotypes or
maybe by both welcome to my life person
see someone who swings between both
science and arts this is me when I was
five years old I was reading an
amazingly interesting book called the
supermarket now I’m 19 years old but
nothing has really changed so I could
also show you a picture of me playing
with Lego constructions or maybe doing
little experiments or drawing what I
want to show you that these are not
faces I have been into science into
maths into biology and I have been into
arts into writing into reading into
drawing throughout my life and as I grew
up I realized maybe there is something
wrong with me because I saw the other
kids and they seemed so sure about
themselves there was this boy who was so
creative he dropped super funny comic
strips and this girl was really smart
she was so good at maths why did they
fit in one slot what did I belong to so
what I want to tell you is that one to
ask you a question what do you think
that this question comes from work why
do you think there is this big wall
between science and arts
I want you that by the end of this
speech what if you think oh maybe I’m
not a personai maybe I’m not a person
being maybe I’m a person see okay so I
realized that there are three
assumptions the people make three
assumptions that people see that’s
why the world is divided into scientists
an artist number one
our brain is separated into logic and
creativity we have our scientist side
and we have our artistic side right
number two we all have a dominant side
of the brain we are a scientist or you
are an artist but you can go for both
and that’s where a third is going art
and science are not compatible okay
that’s what people were telling me too
so I made a list of all the degrees when
I had to choose a career see this is one
of the pages there were three pages
actually I can tell you what’s in there
all of the degrees that you can think of
well not all like I did not put medicine
I cannot handle blunt I’m sorry
so I started to painfully cross one
after the other one and they ended up
going going for human biology that’s
what I’m doing now I’m a second year
student in Europe EF this is a brain and
this is where our first assumption goes
to we said we have a left hemisphere
that it’s about logic about science and
we said there’s this right atmosphere
it’s about creativity about arts can you
see that I’m smiling while I’m saying it
that are just about so happy and science
is so boring this red thing it’s called
the corpus callosum in 1970s a main a
man named Roger Walcott Sperry studied
it why why is it important well because
our brain is definitely divided into
different areas because he needs to be
productive we cannot have all the brain
doing the same thing we have different
areas doing different jobs but we needed
to be connected we needed to talk to
each other so we were doing we’re
working as a whole that’s where the
corpus callosum comes into play we
needed to be so well connected that what
dr. Sperry found out that was that when
people had it cut when they had no
corpus callosum they were
able to do some activities and he trades
them and he realized Oh in the left part
of our brain we have calculation and
language together calculation and
language on the right side of our brain
we have spatial reasoning right there I
just started the myth even though he
said be careful what I’ve just said it’s
very easy to run wild with be careful it
has just all started why
well a couple of days later the New York
Times published this article called
two astonishingly different persons
inhabit our head boom civil war movie
title amazing no guys this is us all of
it we don’t have two people working for
the controls let me take over let me
take over but then their article
continued we are left-brained or
right-brained then they said the left
part of your brain is about logic the
right side of your brain is about
creativity see what they did they did a
small simplification yet by doing that
they made a huge mistake
it’s not so simple we cannot just say
that our brain is divided into science
and art and that’s where our first
assumption goes to the trash can
we cannot believe in that let’s go for
our second assumption we said I’m sorry
your left-brained or right-brained just
like this article is saying it I mean
you probably seen tests online test I
will tell you or you left-brained or
right-brained I took it it said 60% left
brain 40% right brain great yes well not
so simple because this had never really
been never scientifically proven until
2013 when I grew up in Utah studied over
1,000 brains for two years and when they
found out is that there was actually no
basal predominance for one side which
means that we do not have a dominant
side we can not use it as an excuse
anymore I’m sorry if you’re a scientist
you cannot just say I’m sorry my left
brain is more like the dominant one I
cannot draw no this is not true our
second assumption it’s not true so let’s
go for a third assumption we said they
cannot be combined science and art or
different worlds well I see that’s
exactly that’s exactly why they have it
what they have in common the world
world is gorgeous life is amazing it’s
beautiful it holds so many mysteries
that we human we cannot just sit there
and watch we have to communicate it to
express it to show it to understand it
if you do it through a brush if you do a
poem about it or if you take the numbers
to try to understand it it doesn’t
matter I can take a flower and I can
paint you a beautiful night to depart
out of it or I can take your flower and
do the Fibonacci number which is a
sequence of numbers that do patterns
found in nature does the mirror we’re
all trying to understand the world and
you say okay celeea see i see what you
did there you just said it there are
different worlds like there’s different
ways of suppressing it no can you hear
this song this is the pie number yes
3.1415 a youtuber called a song scout
took some of the numbers put each one to
a music note then average something for
the other hand this what came out of it
this is not an abstract painting this is
our retina this will were looking
through it’s beautiful so can you see
that maybe science and arts maybe more
connected than what we think maybe
they’re not so different after all our
first assumption was they cannot be
combined right so what I want to tell
you is that not only can they could be
combined but by doing this we actually
get even greater results I want to give
you three examples number one mid Isaac
Asimov we’ve had some really cool beard
yeah you can laugh about it it’s really
cool but he was actually one of the
greatest science fiction writers ever if
you haven’t read anything about him you
definitely should maybe you have seen I
Robot in the movie well it was inspired
by a book he wrote Star Wars inspired by
his work when I’m trying to tell you is
that he even got a prize for a toy ology
that he were working Foundation and that
price was created just to show how good
he was you’ve heard me like they said
this tri ology is so good we have to
make a process to show how good it is
that’s amazing you said okay great
artist
yes great rider and I said well he was a
biochemistry teacher how does that work
well because it was just that will make
him great he was able to imagine a
future using his scientifical tools he
was able to imagine and say oh this
works now maybe in three years let’s see
what could happen then through his
artistic skills it was able to express
it that would make him so great that he
took both science and art infusing them
let’s go for a second example
Maria Sibylla Marian this was a woman
now we’re talking about the 17th century
and this was a woman who was mind blown
she was amazed by insects especially by
caterpillars and now we’re talking about
a time when caterpillars were seen like
the devil’s creature why was she amazed
by them because she looked and she said
how can something like that become such
a beautiful butterfly so she sat there
and she draw
draw the process just draw and draw it
that was what my name was doing – I mean
when I was just looking at flowers and
he was painting them exactly because
that’s what it’s about but by doing this
she was doing a science work
she was actually becoming US botanist
she was becoming for setting the basis
for the entomology of insects see what
she did once again was combine both arts
and science that’s what made her an
important figure let’s go for a third
example you probably know him we’re
talking about
Antoni gaudí Gauri this is lacera la
familia Gaudi is a scientist or is he an
artist
well he’s both because what he did is be
amazed by nature once again he actually
said it I’m not an original I just go
back to the origins because was being a
means by nature then with his
scientifical tools express it you can
see columns in here what I see is a
forest it’s a forest of trees made of
stone that one making great once again
it’s combining both science and arts can
you see it
maybe there is not such a huge
difference and you’ll tell me ok but you
see what the problem is education is
telling us more than ever we have to
choose science or arts started talking
about myself I said how I ended up going
for science I went for human biology
well that’s not entirely true see I’m
still this 5 years old who still reads
books not the supermarket and read more
interesting books now but in my free
time I go to the theatre I read I write
I even have a small youtube channel
where I talk about the two things
they’re interested me the most science
and arts and now if you told me salia if
you were given the option to go back and
choose a degree again what would you do
I wouldn’t change anything because my
greatest decision was not to choose you
can choose and we good at something you
cannot just take everything you like
combine it and be great thank you very
much you