Week 7: Neuroscience + Art
Week 8
The human brain is a very interesting place. There are many people that study brains and the mind because there is always at least one difference between each brain. With the help of technology, the study of the brain and mind has become more mainstream and people see it more often.
Giovanni Frazzetto and Suzanne Anker labeled this mainstream emergence of neuroscience and the study of the mind as neuroculture. It has spread from just being about studying the brain, to people taking these studies, and using them to explain how a person acts or why they did something. The first thing that pops into my head when thinking about how more people use the brain to explain how or why someone does something is the show Criminal Minds. These FBI agents' purpose is to analyze crime scenes and unsubs in order to find and capture the right suspect. They get inside the mind of the unsub in order to figure out who it is.
Being able to figure out why it is that someone acts a certain way or did something a certain way can go a long way. In every industry, there are people that can do this, and do it correctly. As a society, we have become a lot more interested in how the brain works, and why it is that certain people act a certain way. Being able to understand why someone does something gives a person a better chance of figuring out how to address what they did and correct them if it is needed.
Works Cited
- Albu, Cristina. “Planetary Re-Enchantment: Human-Animal Entanglements in Victoria Vesna’s Octopus Brainstorming.” Cristina Albu - CMA Journal - Simon Fraser University, https://www.sfu.ca/cmajournal/issues/issue-ten--enchantment--disenchantment--reenchantment/cristina-albu.html?fbclid=IwAR1twyrqbeKqNrJSUXSihLVGvX_D9ARndxDv3USnw2pTENE_iXHJtIo8v54.
Frazzetto, Giovanni, and Suzanne Anker. “Neuroculture.” Nature Reviews Neuroscience, vol. 10, no. 11, 2009, pp. 815–821., https://doi.org/10.1038/nrn2736.
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Jung, Carl. “The Spiritual Problem of Modern Man.” The Jung Reader, 2012, pp. 219–233., https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203721049-20.
Deutsch, David. “A New Way to Explain Explanation.” David Deutsch: A New Way to Explain Explanation | TED Talk, https://www.ted.com/talks/david_deutsch_a_new_way_to_explain_explanation?language=en.
I found your blog post very interesting! I found your last passage about Criminal Minds and how there are people who try to figure out what circumstances shape a mind to be particularly intriguing. With so many stimulus that occurs to a person on a given day, I can't imagine how difficult this task must be.
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