Harry Potter and The Half Blood Prince was an extremely good representation of the fusion of art and science. Magic allows this connection because magic must follow the rules of science, but magic allows these rules to be expressed through an art form. Even the act of the wizards using magic is artistic and it shows the beauty that science can have.
Harry Potter was all well and good, but the show must go on. This morning we had an extremely interesting guest lecturer who taught us about the fusion of science and sound. We learned about auto tuning and the many different techniques DJs use to make their music better. He showed us an extremely entertaining video about auto tuning in the news which made surprisingly clear the extremely thin line between art and science. Overall, it was an extremely interesting lecture which I found extremely stimulating and interesting. I was able to clearly see how closely science and art forms really were.
Tonight we watched the extremely interesting movie Blade Runner. It was about a futuristic world in which robots were almost exactly the same as humans. An old cop had to come out of retirement to help the police find 5 extremely dangerous “replicants” that needed to be caught. It follows his quest through the annals of future society to find these dangerous robots. By the end of the movie these replicants have been humanized because they no longer recognize themselves as robots and have human emotions.
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