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Between science and literature

Although science and literature may seem like extreme areas, one can learn a lot from the other. The Mestizaje S, organized this week in San Sebastián, sought to overcome the boundary between art and science and create an ideal space to generate new ideas.

Donostia International Physic Center and CONOCER, Science, Letters and Arts

It was an academic initiative. Many important names from the international community and the Basque Country come together to reflect.

Luis Sáez Rueda; philosopher: Mestizaje, relación... is necessary because the areas of knowledge are not differentiated.

Gustavo Swchartz; Physical Materials Center: The problems that we will face in the coming decades will not be able to address them from a single field of knowledge, that is, only from the physical, chemical, philosophical or literary field. They will have to be studied from multiple fields of knowledge, or from an interdisciplinary perspective, a need that has led us, in a certain way, to organize this type of mestizaje, meetings.

BY INTERACTING WITH EACH OTHER

Luisa Etxenike, writer: Scientific advances, especially in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, profoundly influenced literature and also changed the way literature was represented.

Alberto Rojo; physicist and musician: In essence, the universe is very vague, it is a very vague idea, and often to describe it scientifically requires almost fanciful ideas: that space can be curved, that edges can be variable, that there is a lot of time... today we do not consider them fictitious and they first appeared in the literature.

LITERATURE IN SCIENCE

Luisa Etxenike, writer: In my opinion, science wins when it assumes questions and reflections that are very common in literature, such as the aesthetic question and possibly also the humanistic dimension.

[SCIENCE IN LITERATURE]

Guillermo Martínez; mathematician and writer: Scientific fiction, that is, literature that uses the elements of science, thus broadens the playing field of literature and adds new themes or fields suggested by science.

Luis Etxenike; writer: Literature has reached its highest level when it has approached its raw material with the curiosity and rigor of science.

Agustín Fernánez Mallo; physicist and writer: Although it may seem a little strange, I use science for poetic research; it is almost more difficult to explain this idea than to read that poetry later. I investigate how to make poetic metaphors using elements of science. That’s why I use science.

THE COMMON AREAS

Guillermo Martínez; mathematician and writer: The mathematician, for example, sees models in a platonic sky and brings to a theorem what he sees. The writer, on the other hand, sees behaviors, characters, parts of an argument and brings them to a novel or a story. Language is different.

Luisa Etxenike, writer: Scientific dissemination through the art of counting can be interesting from the scientific point of view.

Agustín Fernández Mallo; physicist and writer: When I bring elements of science into literature, I gain vast areas of freedom. To put an element of science out of context, to add it to a novel or poem and to give it a new meaning is to bring creativity to the highest degree of freedom.

ANTICIPATING THE FUTURE

Alberto Rojo; physicist and musician: We can say that the history of humanity is a global process of knowledge creation, in which some ideas were first exposed in the literature and later turned into theories.

Like art, science is subjective, it is the result of human creativity.