Dear Sonu,
Thank you very much for your most interesting new thread. For some reason, I do
not have your exchange with Pedro on "Lantham's proposal". Could you clarify?
As you know, the biologist E. O. Wilson, in his work on consilience, has
addressed the convergence of natural and human science, including art, and has
identified some of the "epigenetic rules" that account for the cross-cultural
invariants in pleasing designs and pleasing faces. While I do not follow him in
his derivation of the latter primarily from reproductive capability, the
overall theory seems right to me, although biologists in this group may
disagree.
In the extension of logic to real phenomena on which I am working, as it is a
"logic of dynamic opposition", there are applications possible in art, and,
presumably, the underlying neural processes, without reduction of one to the
other.
I look forward to your further postings that will enable contact to this domain.
Cheers,
Joseph Brenner
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From: Sonu Bhaskar
To: fis@listas.unizar.es
Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2008 5:30 PM
Subject: [Fis] Neuroscience of art
Dear FIS Colleagues,
The cognizance between the art and cognitive neuroscience has been relatively
ignored in the scientific fraternity. The recent proposition regarding the ten
laws of art, as Dr. V. S. Ramachandran puts it, has ignited a new debate among
the philosophers and the neuroscientists about neural correlates of art in its
different forms.
Professor Ramachandran's suggested 10 universal laws of art:
1.. Peak shift
2.. Grouping
3.. Contrast
4.. Isolation
5.. Perception problem solving
6.. Symmetry
7.. Abhorrence of coincidence/generic viewpoint
8.. Repetition, rhythm and orderliness
9.. Balance
10.. Metaphor
Ref: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/reith2003/lecture3.shtml
The tenets of the above 10 laws draws its profound inspiration from the
theory of information flow and the conceptualisation of the perception in
humans. Interestingly, some of these points dovetail with Lanham's proposal
that Pedro mentions; but others are very different…
This is my first posting to FIS. I am an Indian Neuroscientist pursuing
doctoral research in Spain (land of Cajal!!!).
Greetings to all.
Sonu Bhaskar
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Dear FIS colleagues,
A new course has started, in which hopefully we will re-assume exciting
exchanges like in past months.
For a starter, let me mention one of the books I went through this
Summer: "The Economics of Attention" (Richard A. Lanham, Un. of Chicago
Press, 20006), I think it has not been cited in our discussions yet.
The book continues the very themes we recently approached but mostly
considered within the social realm. The author advocates a new theory of
human communication --displays of information, signals, motives,
attention structures, intellective oscillatory cycle, styles &
rhetorics, social exchange...). Overall, he has produced a stimulating
and fertile synthesis ---a possible path to communicate FIS stuff with
the social and "literary" reflections of today? Along the "disciplinary
shift" he proposes, arts and letters become central, as the disciplines
that study how attention is located and how cultural capital is traded.
Thus the letters and the sciences have changed place (together with
style vs. substance, design vs. engineering, rhetorics vs. philosophy...).
It is a real call of attention to those, like us, who are reflecting on
foundations for an integrated information perspective.
best wishes
Pedro
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