Alva Noë :: Art and the Limits of Neuroscience (2011) . [why neuroaesthetics may just be the wrong kind of empirical science for understanding art] - http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011...
Dec 4, 2011
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"Neuroscience has yet to frame anything like an adequate biological or “naturalistic” account of human experience — of thought, perception, or consciousness. We really ought to say that it is the normally embodied, environmentally- and socially-situated human animal that thinks, feels, decides and is conscious. But once we say this, it would be simpler, and more accurate, to allow that it is people, not their brains, who think and feel and decide. It is people, not their brains, that make and enjoy art. You are not your brain, you are a living human being." cf. Francis Crick and his “astonishing hypothesis.”
- Adriano
"An account of how the brain constrains our ability to perceive has no greater claim to being an account of our ability to perceive art than it has to being an account of how we perceive sports, or how we perceive the man across from us on the subway."
- Adriano
The graphics grabbed my attention...
- The Neurocritic
The Beautiful Brain gives a paragraph by paragraph response to Noë:http://thebeautifulbrain.com/2011...
- The Neurocritic