Week 7: Neuroscience + Art

After this week, I know more about art and science is related. The article titled "Neuroculture" by Giovanni Frazzetto and Suzanne Anker impressed me a lot. Obviously, prior to reading it, I knew about the importance of neuroscience in the contemporary culture; however, only after reading it I was able to develop a broader perspective on the issue. Thus, I understood that the scientists have gathered a considerable amount of information regarding the processes that take place in the brain (Striano and Reid 16). That is why it is safe to say that modern scholars have become closer to unraveling the mysteries of it. What is even more important is that the advances of this science will also help people take a new perspective on mind-body dualism (Feinberg and Shafer-Landau 213). 

After all, this is the problem that has fascinated people for centuries. One should note that this fascination with the brain has been particularly popular in the course of the recent decades. One might recall that in the end of the twentieth there have been several movies that explored the role of the brain. Thus, "The Matrix" opened a new perspective on reality, arguing that it is possible to recreate reality by affecting the brain only (Grau 123). People use movies to explain neuroscience to audience, which can make audience more understandable, and also movie sometimes use exaggerate to show that.

Another good example is "Johhny Mnemonic" - that movie shows that it is possible to use one's brain as a flash drive (Packer 155). Recently, the interest towards the secrets of this organ resulted in the movie "Split" that explored dissociative identity disorder (Moline 29). All this shows that the public is really fascinated with the role that brain plays in lives of the people and this is reflected in various elements of culture, particularly entertainment such as movies.

Works Cited

Feinberg, Joel, and Russ Shafer-Landau. Reason and responsibility: readings in some basic problems of philosophy. Boston, MA: Cengage Learning, 2017. Print.

Grau, Christopher. Philosophers explore The Matrix. New York, NY: Oxford U Press, 2005. Print.

Moline, Ronald A. The diagnosis and treatment of dissociative identity disorder: a case study and contemporary perspective. Lanham, MD: Jason Aronson, 2013. Print.

Packer, Sharon. Neuroscience in science fiction films. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2015. Print.

Striano, Tricia, and Vincent Reid. Social cognition: development, neuroscience, and autism. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. Print.