Blog Week 7
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| Inception www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3A3-zSOBT4. |
This week we read, Neuroculture by Giovanni Frazzetto, The Spiritual Problem of the Man by Carl Jung, and watched various videos which all pertain to the topic of Neuroscience and art. I never really noticed this correlation between neuroscience and art until this week. According to Giovanni, he states “Ideas, concepts, and images in neuroscience widely circulate in culture and are portrayed in literature, film, works of art, the mass media, and commercial products, therefore stopping values and consumer practices.” (pg.1) For example, neuroscience research began due to curiosity of the general public. It surrounds our everyday life, through news articles and movies like inception. (Inception Trailer) Neuroscience ideas assimilate into cultural imaginary, just like in Jung article when he states, ”... man fight each other and find out psyche as something which thwarts our will.” (pg. 4) This connection to neuroscience is art is related to our own brain fighting ourselves, just like when we go back and forth when making a decision within our head.
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| Modern Man in Search of a Soul. |
In the video lectures, one thing that stood out to me was the idea of consciousness. The given definition was “state or condition of being conscious.” (Neuroscience pt1) With technology, we are becoming lazier and depending a lot of technology to do the thinking for us. This correlates back to the topic about robots and how they we humans are becoming one with them (Robotics pt1). This also reminded me of the movie stealth and how robots do not have consensuses but in that movie the robot did have one because he was unable to delete his memory, something every robot is programmed to do (Stealth).
The use of medicine in order to help patients suffering from a chemical in balance is a big part of neuroscience. Despite many drugs like cocaine and LSD being tried in the early 50 and 60's, one thing that shocked me was Project MK Ultra which consisted of the CIA giving LSD to government workers to see if it could be used as a mind control drug (Neuroscience pt3). This project reminded me of the unethical issues related to artists working with gene mutations as a form of art (Bioart pt1). Despite being a south campus major, I never noticed how much Neuroscience shapes my daily life and impacts everything I do. To think this is only the beginning as we make new advances each and every day.
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| Project MK Ultra Patient www.thesun.co.uk/news/5115368/the-top-secret-cia-experiment-behind-stranger-things-and-new-netflix-drama-wormwood/. |
References
“Can We Create Consciousness In A Machine?” AGE OF ROBOTS Magazines, 14 Mar. 2018, www.neuroroboticsmagazine.com/can-create-consciousness-machine/.
Christodoulou, Holly. “The Top Secret CIA Experiment behind Stranger Things and New Netflix Drama Wormwood.” The Sun, The Sun, 24 Dec. 2017, www.thesun.co.uk/news/5115368/the-top-secret-cia-experiment-behind-stranger-things-and-new-netflix-drama-wormwood/.
Frazzetto, Giovanni, and Suzanne Anker. Neuroculture . MACMILLAN , 2009.
Jung, C. G., et al. Modern Man in Search of a Soul. Martino Fine Books, 2017.
uconlineprogram. “Neuroscience-pt1.Mov.” YouTube, YouTube, 17 May 2012, Length, 14:07.www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzXjNbKDkYI.
uconlineprogram. “Neuroscience pt3.” YouTube, YouTube, 16 May 2012, Length, 15:30. www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=E5EX75xoBJ0.
uconlineprogram. 5 Bioart pt1. YouTube, YouTube, 18 Sept. 2013, Length 15:04.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaThVnA1kyg.
Uconlineprogram. Medicine pt1. YouTube. April 21, 2012. Length 12:58 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ep0M2bOM9Tk
uconlineprogram. 5 Bioart pt1. YouTube, YouTube, 18 Sept. 2013, Length 15:04.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaThVnA1kyg.
warnervod. “Inception - Trailer.” YouTube, YouTube, 4 Apr. 2011, www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3A3-zSOBT4.
Ziskin, Laura, and W. D. Richter. Stealth.
I liked that you mentioned Inception in your post. Works of art like inception are the best way to get the general public to think about grand ideas like consciousness, and effectively provoke us to think about questions we haven't considered before. Interesting blog.
ReplyDeleteI enjoy your first comment about having not had thought about the relation of neuroscience and art until this week because I had also never thought about this relation until DESMA 9. I also find it so interesting that curiosity and mass media can influence the production of neuroscience research. The idea of consciousness is so complex and I really enjoyed your thoughts on it in relation to the movie Stealth. I never knew about project MK Ultra but it sounds like a very scary human experimentation and I agree that the ethical ramifications should be at the forefront of the discussion with the concept.
ReplyDeleteI really liked how you used the move "Inception" in your blog to show how ideas of neuroscience have entered everyday culture. When I think about it, this movie really helped explain the ideas the conscious, subconscious, and dream state to the unknowing public. It also showed, what may seem outrageous, what neuroscience advancements can be applied to in the future possibly. If we were eventually able to tap into a person's dreams, imagine what could happen. The possibilities are endless.
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