Week 7: Neuroscience and Art
Blog #6: Neuroscience and Art
Left brain vs right brain |
Anther topic I noticed mentioned in this week’s material several times was that of sexuality. Sigmund Freud was adamant about how powerful of a motivator sexuality is, and Timothy Leary endorsed LSD as a powerful aphrodisiac. I think that Jung was correct in his criticism of Freud’s ideas on sexuality because its such a subjective topic — what motivates one person sexually is not guaranteed to translate to anybody else, and some people are not motivated by it whatsoever. The same goes for Leary in regards to LSD.
Timothy Leary |
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Hi, I really liked how you pointed out some of the theories prevalent in society that evidence has been accumulating against. I recently began to hear about evidence debunking left/right brain theories, too. You're right in that the brain truly is a very complex organ whose processes we are only beginning to understand and model. There is so much the brain can do that we understand and apply (we're literally just a body controlled by a brain) yet we don't truly understand it. It's this cycle of logic that's kind of mind boggling. My favorite thought is that the brain named itself. I think like any field of study, neuroscience and understanding the brain will come with time.
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