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My play, ‘Synchronicity’, on stage at the White Bear Theatre, London until 30th November

Actors playing Jung and Pauli on stage during Synchronicity

In 1931 the brash and brilliant physicist Wolfgang Pauli approached the world-renowned analyst Carl Jung for help. Pauli’s neurosis had wreaked such havoc with his psyche that when Jung first saw him, he felt as if the “wind had blown over from the lunatic asylum”. In their discussions they struck sparks off each other and in the end not one but both of them were changed.
Synchronicity is about psychology, physics, alchemy and the extraordinary things that can happen when two brilliant minds meet. Thought provoking, sometimes deep, sometimes moving – it is about how a meeting of the minds can change the world.

Creativity in the Age of Machines – Interview in Interalia Magazine

Richard Bright: The February issue aims to explore what it means (and will mean) to be human in the age of Artificial Intelligence. It would be good to start with how we define intelligence, both in terms of human intelligence and our growing understanding of animal intelligence. It is obviously a complex, multi-faceted entity, (and maybe … Read more

There are many ways to blend science and theatre…

An episode of discovery perhaps, like Albert Einstein’s discovery of relativity theory as told in the recent television series, Genius; merging politics, science and world events, as in Michael Frayn’s Copenhagen; or using science as the backdrop to the plot, which is the case in Lucy Kirkwood’s Mosquitoes. What is paramount to such projects is to avoid bombarding … Read more

Book review by Arthur I. Miller in Physics World

Trafficking in big ideas A recent book review of mine of a biography of John Horton Conway, creator of the Game of Life, discoverer of much more. Some minds never cease to fascinate. They soar over difficulties and spot connections between fields that are invisible to others. They traffic in the big ideas. The mind … Read more

Fearless symmetries

Sciences and the arts are re-entering each other’s orbits in a burst of boundary-blurring creativity, Arthur I. Miller observes Sciart – science-inspired art – still retains something of the cachet of the underground, but it now seems poised to emerge into the light of day. Take, for example, this year’s Ars Electronica, the leading annual … Read more