Sunday, January 29, 2017

Two different thoughts

In the past two weeks that I’ve been in my English 1320 class, I’ve read/viewed a couple of interesting things involving the brain and how we as humans perceive stuff. I read an article called "This is your brain on art: A neuroscientist's lessons on why abstract art makes our brains hurt so good." I also viewed a video "Jim Bolte Taylor: My stroke of Insight." The author of the article and Host in the video both spoke upon the mind and how it perceives and processes information. I feel that if they were both having dinner together, Noah Charney would start off the conversation by speaking of Abstract and for the most why people don't like it. He would explain that the mystery within viewing the art is that it causes the viewer to look at the world and art in a new way entirely, it sets the mind apart from what it already knew the world as. Noah would also say how feels that it's different parts of thinking to the brain, such as, top down and bottom up; "bottom up is mental processes that has been ingrained in us to explain the world, while top down is based off personal experience and knowledge." Jill Bolte Taylor on the other hand would respond by telling her story of how she had a life-threatening experience that influenced her to feel that the mind thinks two ways but in hemispheres that processes information differently. She would tell charney how her research has concluded that the right hemisphere Is all about the present moment, and it thinks in pictures and it learns kinesthetically through the movement of our bodies. She would also tell charney about our left hemisphere and how it's thought processes the past and future and it depicts details. Overall, they would probably disagree about how the brain process in general.

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