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Is There a Scientific Method?
I believe in linear thinking when we're communicating just because it's a decent thing to do with a lot of people around and they want to understand. I think that those areas of inquiry need to work alongside mainstream science so that they can be a continuous dialogue. If you look at some of the most major discoveries, if you look at Einstein's theory of relativity, Einstein described it as a musical perception. He didn't just logically arrive at this. Something happened and there was an emergent thought. Carrie Banks-Miles who discovered a way of making synthetic DNA, he was driving with his girlfriend from Berkeley to Mendocino,. He had had some wine, he stopped, his lab mates