Biography

JONAH LEHRER is an editor at large for SEED magazine and author of Proust Was a Neuroscientist (Mariner, 2008). His second book, How We Decide (Houghton Mifflin), will be published in February 2009.

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  Why Science Needs Art

  by Jonah Lehrer

  The more we know about reality, the more palpable its paradoxes become. The author of Proust Was a Neuroscientist believes that artistic interpretations of scientific ideas and theories offer science a new lens through which to see itself while also furthering our inquiry into the nature of consciousness.

  • Articles
  • September - November 2008
  • 6 pages

  Topics:

  Arts & Creativity, Neuroscience