Roger Penrose and Iain McGilchrist debate imagination and the scientific method.

Has science failed?

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We see imagination and creativity as central human qualities vital to technology and innovation as well as the arts. Yet the scientific account of the universe, operating with immutable laws and strict cause and effect, appears to leave little room for anything genuinely new, and thus truly imaginative or creative. Is creativity an illusion or is the scientific model itself critically flawed?

Should we conclude that imagination and creativity escape the corset of cause and effect, creating new worlds that we are then able to inhabit? Or is imagination merely the combination of prior experiences, forming nothing essentially original? Is more at stake here than the character of creativity and instead do we need to reframe the very nature of reality and our role in it?

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World-renowned mathematician and Nobel Laureate in Physics Roger Penrose, award-winning writer Esther Freud and ground-breaking polymath and former Oxford scholar Iain McGilchrist join Eliane Glaser to debate creativity, imagination and whether or not they can help us reframe our understanding of reality.

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