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        Date: 2026-05-13 05:47:18+00:00
        From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk>
        Subject: reciprocal effects

In projects that combine computing and the arts, we know that the arts
involved are affected, perhaps changed in ways interesting to artists. I
suppose researchers in the midst of computing and the humanities might
say the latter are expanded or improved, or sent in new directions &c.
But what about the computing as a science where it takes on the arts and
humanities?

Let's enlarge that question to the physical, biological and cognitive
sciences in their engagements with the arts and humanities, however
indirect or speculative. One hears it said that e.g. we on the latter
side now need to think in new ways about e.g. dialogue or emotions or
imaginative thought or memory now that the relevant sciences have
discovered this or that--now that we KNOW something about these 
human processes. Philosophers of science argue these days in ways 
much more companionable to humanists than once was the case. But 
what about the scientists themselves? How are they affected? Are they 
affected?

Course-corrections welcome!

Best,
WM
--
Willard McCarty, Professor em., King's College London;
Editor, Interdisciplinary Research in the Arts, Sciences
and Humanities (tinyurl.com/Berghahn-IRASH),
Humanist (dhhumanist.org);
www.mccarty.org.uk


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