Video and Article Response

“What the brain draws from: Art and neuroscience”

Aesthetics: Philosophy of the Arts

CARTA: Neurobiology Neurology and Art and Aesthetics

There were several key points that were discussed, mainly pertaining to the philosophers and their view on aesthetics.
Plato- who was a Greek philosopher born  429 B.C.  and the later passed away on 347 B.C. He said that he distrusted poets and the way they work.
Aristotle- was another great philosopher born 384 and then died 322 B.C. In the video they talked about what he studied, and how in depth he went. He studied tragedy and said that acting should represent a specification of something, the time of it shouldn't exceed 24 hours.
The last philosopher that I thought was interesting was Francis Hutcheness and he said that the human mediated to external senses to internal that registers the phenomenon of beauty. I thought that Francis had a great theory. When I read it I thought that it mean that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, what one person might think is beautiful someone might think is the worst thing that they have ever seen. For example I think the Van Gogh's "Starry Night" is beautiful and one of my favorite pieces of art, but someone else might think that its just a bunch or colors mixed into a blob.

This was a very long and somewhat confusing video to understand. There were a few key points that I got out of this. When Jean Pierre Changeux talked about the bottom up processing, I really enjoyed it and thought that it was interesting. Another point was when he was talking about the science of art, and said that images can produce pleasing affects of the brain, which is the brain responding to art.

I thought that they videos were somewhat dry, I liked them but I fell like I could have got a lot more out of them if I was able to understand the speakers more clearly. They made a lot of valid and interesting points, but when they got going on starting talking fast I had to re-watch segments multiple times. They were very informational and educational though. When they brought up a topic they went into grave detail and explained their feelings and personal thoughts about a subject.