Week 7 Blog Post: Neuroscience+Art

The topic for this week is mechanization and art. Firstly, The Global Conscious Project really piques my interest. I never thought that there could be something which makes people to have the same reaction to it.  The project focuses on finding the common things of the brain activities among different people regarding various global issues. The scientists study the relationship between the brain activities. It is really amazing that the scientists actually found some common patterns in each person’s mind. This project reminds me of the universality of facial expressions which is the topic of my midterm project. There are a lot of things which human beings do not know about human bodies.  The advance of modern science and technology will help us gain more amazing findings in the future.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ef/GlobalCP.jpg/350px-GlobalCP.jpg 

Secondly, Sigmund Freud’s master piece “The Interpretation of Dreams” is very insightful and gives me a lot of ideas about neuroscience, especially dream. This book talks about how people understand themselves and getting more aware of their desires. In the Book, Freud mentioned that dreams are forms of wish fulfillment. In the dreams, people can get successful in things they have failed or have not completed. The setting and plot of the stories in the dreams may not be matching what happened in real life. This book really made people think and dig into such interesting areas in neuroscience.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/Die_Traumdeutung_(Congress_scan).jpg/200px-Die_Traumdeutung_(Congress_scan).jpg

"the original title page of the book"

Another interesting point is that Jonah Lehrer believe that "memory is faulty and always changing. To remember is to misremember." Our brain is very active and is one of the strongest muscles in our body, but I feel that this is a very new perspective telling me the limitations of minds.

http://media.smithsonianmag.com/images/Memory-hippocampus-brain-631.jpg

All in all, neuroscience and art correlate closely. There are a lot of interesting theories or scientific applications which attract many young talents to dig more into them. 

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