This is a direct quotation from the Prelude section in an incredibly profound and fresh thinking new book by intellectual/scientist Johna Lehrer called: Proust Was a Neuroscientist...
"Unfortunately, our current culture subscribes to a very narrow definition of truth. If something can't be quantified or calculated, then it can' be true. Because this strict scientific approach has explained so much, we assume that it can explain everything. But ever method, even the experimental method, has limits. Take the human mind. Scientists describe our brain in terms of its physical details; they say we are nothing but a loom of electrical cells and synaptic spaces. What science forgets is that this isn't how we experience the world. (We feel like the ghost, not like the machine.) It is ironic but true: the one reality science cannot reduce is the only reality we will ever know. This is why we need art. By expressing our actual experience, the artists reminds us that our science is incomplete, that no map of matter will ever explain the immateriality of our consciousness."
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