Yes! And I think this is something where That One Gentleman and I particularly disagree, in that he thinks of making the best choice as optimisation, as Just The Right Thing To Do, rather than as something creative. I don't know whether that's a mismatch in perspective we'll come to a compromise on, or whether it's something we'll just shruggingly agree to disagree on (... until the next time he tells me that he admires that I'm creative, because he really isn't, at least ;)
-- one of the things I meant to mention in the original post, and didn't, is that I wonder about the extent to which it is because science is perceived as following a logical and rational set of steps; where "rational" and "emotional" are set up in opposition to one another; where "creativity" is associated with "emotion"; and where people in STEM forget that sonnets exist. Seriously, anyone who wants to tell me that the arts don't contain some incredibly rigid rules can try writing me a decent sonnet, and then we'll talk. ;)
ETA all of which goes quite a long way into the territory of philosophy of science, and what the Scientific Method is anyway, and what "objectivity" means in any useful sense...
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Date: 2013-12-24 09:31 pm (UTC)-- one of the things I meant to mention in the original post, and didn't, is that I wonder about the extent to which it is because science is perceived as following a logical and rational set of steps; where "rational" and "emotional" are set up in opposition to one another; where "creativity" is associated with "emotion"; and where people in STEM forget that sonnets exist. Seriously, anyone who wants to tell me that the arts don't contain some incredibly rigid rules can try writing me a decent sonnet, and then we'll talk. ;)
ETA all of which goes quite a long way into the territory of philosophy of science, and what the Scientific Method is anyway, and what "objectivity" means in any useful sense...