Beyond causality

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5. Read "The two cultures" decades back.

First week as a freshman headed to lecture for chemistry--then had our "tutorials" section or whatever they were called. TA, work problems, get questions answered that the 380+ student lecture hall couldn't tolerate.

TA assigned "The Two Cultures". It was a tech school. It had a "humanities" "department" (scare quotes justified): You could take a year of Intro/US history, a year of Intro/World history, a year of Intro/English-language literature, or a year of Intro/Philosophy. You had to take 3 of the 4. Otherwise, it was science, math, engineering. (No, no languages. No music. No arts. Math, science, engineering. And the "hum courses." My snarky US history adjunct, day 1, said that he knew his role: It was to teach us enough history that we didn't embarrass ourselves at cocktail parties while talking to the boss's wife and saying some stupid like mention George Washington's victory over the Confederates at the Battle of the Bulge.)

In some ways, the divide is greater as a lot of humanities/social "sciences" have made claims about science that most science/engineering types reject. In some ways the divide is less as those claims have gained prominence in some parts of science and engineering, or at least the hierarchical apparatus that the science/engineering folk are employed in.