Art perception to pain perception… How to tell good art…
Tag: Consciousness
Silence as Art – The Art of Space
On a beautiful spring afternoon, a Sunday in Berkeley, California, we were only two
NEWS: WINTER 2012 – Happenings in Art, Science and Other Stuff
HIGHWAYS & BYWAYS: Your brain wiring in 3-D…
The Human Connectome Project can now scan and show all the wiring in your brain – but not yet
Is The Internet Conscious? Could It Be?
The short answer is
Consciousness & Free Will – They Are Just Illusions
Just when we think we know why we are superior to monkeys – the larger size of our prefrontal cortex: that ‘thinking’ or executive brain – now neuro-biologists are telling us we don’t really
What Mad Pursuit – Francis Crick 1916-2004
But to convey my own feelings, I cannot do better than quote…the painter John Minton in which he said of his own artistic creations, “The important thing is to be there when the picture is painted.”
Francis Crick, on his discovery of DNA structure
On this day eight years ago, the possibly most creative biologist of the twentieth century died in San Diego, California. He was one of the greatest scientists of of all time, along with Einstein,
Of Chimp & Child – And Aesop’s Fable
How smart is your four-year-old? Not as smart as a chimp, or maybe even Aesop’s rook. Watch these videos in the BBC News report Spitting and Urinating Chimps ‘Replay Aesop’s Fable.
Information = Knowledge?
Where is the Life we have lost in living?
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information
T.S. Eliot, from “The Rock” (1934)
Since those bleak pre-war days when Eliot put down these lines, our world has galloped on at even greater speed, with a velocity ever more dizzying. This of course is in great part aided by the advent of the computer and the information age. It has created such wealth and prosperity utterly unimagined a mere seventy years ago. But has all this made our lives better? Are we wiser and happier? We should be, if information = knowledge.