Might this someone also spell out just which "commonplace opinions" and
"accepted norms" are contrary to the insights under discussion ?
Perhaps they're not really so commonplace and accepted.
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Thu, 27 Nov 2008 17:46:32 -0800
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.
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