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Reason excludes creativity and intuition

By Artist Keith Tyson

23 July 2008

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I’M A great lover of science. It’s a fascinating language that I use regularly, and its brilliant insights have inspired my artworks, including some based on mathematical systems that are attempting to visualise higher dimensions: things that we can’t make a picture of yet which can be described mathematically. The challenge is to find ways I can use concepts that cannot be visualised in two, three or four dimensions, and yet somehow cast shadows into the world, rather like a hypercube. These concepts are very exciting because they’re both rational and counterintuitive.…

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