I'll get back to this next week in greater detail. Meanwhile, the thesis of the book is that some artists have had intuitive insights to aspects of consciousness that are now being confirmed by neurological science. The interesting thing is that artists' intuitions inspired some extraordinary art --from poetry to cooking. With Proust, the author shows how Proust's reconstructions of memory, always differing, echo the way we really do recall -- by reinventing experiences. This is contrary to commonplace opinion, even today.
To say the correspondences are merely coincidences is of course absolutely correct because the artists cited could not have foreseen what neurology is and does today. And for that obvious reason, the point is not that the artists could see the future but that they were, at their time, counter-intuitive in their creativity, working against the accepted norms (that still remain amongst humanists, especially). The book helps us to better appreciate the achievements of those artists from the perspective of contemporary science. That's useful and interesting because it adds another facet in trying to explain how art comes into being. WC --- On Thu, 11/27/08, armando baeza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: armando baeza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Proust etc-Will someone do another chapter > To: [email protected] > Cc: "armando baeza" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Thursday, November 27, 2008, 6:30 PM > Seems like no one else will, so i'll place my neck out > there. > To me the conclusion to proust,is what I think we already > know. > The essence of anything sensed, can never be duplicated by > the mind. That every new sense changes what is there > before. > mando > > On Nov 26, 2008, at 5:29 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Any chapter. We could cut to the chase and do the > Proust chapter- > > Conger > > could do it. > > KAte Sullivan > > > > > > ************** > > Life should be easier. So should your homepage. > > Try the NEW AOL.com. (http://www.aol.com/?optin=new- > > dp&icid=aolcom40vanity& > > ncid=emlcntaolcom00000002)
