Blog 7 Desma 9

 This week’s blog discusses the relationship between neuroscience and art. The essential part of understanding the mind is grasping the concept of the certain state that the mind is in. Consciousness is defined as “a sense of one’s personal identity” (Lecture I).  This means that the mind is aware of its surroundings. It is able to sense the surrounding conditions and elements and interpret them to be advantageous to itself. The mind was not always perceived as the place of thought, however. Aristotles hypothesized that the “seat of thought and emotion was the heart” (lecture I).  

(Madame Tussauds)

Dreams are the mind in the unconscious state. Freud claims that the unconscious mind is where “significant psychic events take place” (lecture II). This process of unconscious thought has “both symbolic and actual significance” (Lecture II) in the eyes of Sigmund Freud. “Carl Gustav Jung, a Swiss psychiatrist” (Lecture II) claims that the “unconscious could also be a source of creativity” (Lecture II).

(Nature)

Neuroscience and art can be connected by drugs. Cocaine and LSD have influenced art. Hofmann, after willingly taking “.25 miligrams” (Lecture III), created an illustration of what he saw while under the influence. The result was a piece that is seen to “celebrate the discovery of LSD” (Lecture III). Other artists that experiment with neuroscience and art are “Picasso…Canaletto” and Piranesi.” (Jay) Music is also impacted by neuroscience by “The Amygdaloids” (The Amygdaloids) in their performance of “Fearing” (The Amygdaloids).

(The conversation)

Bibliography

Fearing - the Amygdaloids - Youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMI3hbgRj6o.

Jay, Daniel. Neuroscience + Art with Daniel Jay. https://bruinlearn.ucla.edu/courses/129896/pages/unit-7-view?module_item_id=4852536.

Mahmoud Bukar Maina FRSA Research Fellow. “Putting Nigerian Neuroscience Research under the Microscope.” The Conversation, 5 Nov. 2021, https://theconversation.com/putting-nigerian-neuroscience-research-under-the-microscope-101396.

Nature News, Nature Publishing Group, https://www.nature.com/collections/fcajfbdbba/.

“Sigmund Freud.” Madame Tussauds™ Vienna, https://www.madametussauds.com/wien/en/what-s-inside/art-and-culture/sigmund-freud/.

Vesna , Victoria. Lecture II. https://bruinlearn.ucla.edu/courses/129896/pages/unit-7-view?module_item_id=4852536.

Vesna , Victoria. Lecture III. https://bruinlearn.ucla.edu/courses/129896/pages/unit-7-view?module_item_id=4852536.

Vesna, Victoria. Lecture I. https://bruinlearn.ucla.edu/courses/129896/pages/unit-7-view?module_item_id=4852536. 

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