Reddit mentions of Structural Intuitions: Seeing Shapes in Art and Science (Page-Barbour Lectures)

Love this. Clearly the scientific method is useful, we can all see the functional results of improved technology, etc. But, that doesn't mean that it's the only useful method of evaluating meaning or even utility.

Though, as a side note, people interested in this conversation might like to check out Theosophist Annie Besant's early 1900s work on remote viewing atomic structure: https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/822a/c43d77ed6fa8e2704483eeb1c64a6eea3995.pdf

Or, on a more recent note, this book which I'm in the middle of but has some really interesting theory about how scientific discoveries tend to be first grasped in an visual and intuitive sense (which practicing Witchcraft can almost certainly improve) before being put into testable theoretical terms: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0813937000/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o09_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1