Michael: If you have any references to neuroscience or neurology or
neuropsychology as to how the brain produces thoughts I'd be interested. I'm
familiar with linking of brain imaging to direction and length of gaze so
that's not involved. If I'm also not (at the moment) interested in the brain
area implicated when a patient/person is thinking of something or seeing or
hearing something but, rather, the creative process of freely having a
thought.
Geoff C
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Brady" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, December 20, 2008 4:46 PM
Subject: Re: Geoff, Neurology and "Art"
On Dec 20, 2008, at 2:09 PM, [email protected] wrote:
And where you have you been for the last month? The neurology that has
been
championed on the forum has been based on the assumption that examining
brain
tissue material will yield useful and enlightening things about the
creation
and appreciation of "art". (And about how "consciousness" -- which some
of us
persist in considering a non-material entity -- can "arise from" that
neural
tissue.)
Cheerskep, please take a bit more care and caution with the notions you
cause to arise in my brain. When you use the spelling, "neurology," I
think of the branch of medicine that deals with the anatomy, functions,
and diseases of the brain. William and others used the spelling,
"neuroscience," which made me think of the branches of science, such as
neurochemistry and experimental psychology, that study the structure of
function of the nervous system and brain. And the subject studied by
neuroscience isn't the "tissue material" itself, as in histology, but the
way in which the brain and nervous system works to produce its products,
among them, thoughts and other ideations.
Luc made a good point with his remark about neuroaesthetics.
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