What can poetry learn from the way science observes the world, trains perception, builds knowledge, and works among peers?
In this founding Polymath Conversation, mathematician and statistical geneticist Loïc Yengo joins poet and editor Murielle Mobengo for an inquiry that begins with the reliability of scientific knowledge and gradually turns toward a more unusual possibility: could creativity itself become an object of knowledge?
Moving between mathematics, poetry, genetics, meditation, mythology, artificial intelligence and the philosophy of consciousness, their conversation asks what poets are actually trying to observe, what tools might sharpen that observation, and what the arts might learn from the cultures of training and collective discovery developed by the sciences.
Along the way, another possibility emerges: rather than treating creativity as an inexplicable gift, might we begin to understand the conditions through which creation becomes possible?
This conversation has been edited for readability while preserving the movement and substance of the original exchange.
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