Week 8



The connection between neuroscience and art seems to be very similar to me as medical technology and art. The topic of neuroscience is interesting because to learn about topics such as consciousness, unconsciousness, and how drugs can affect the way neuroscientists and artists have learned about the brain and the way it functions. Professor Vesna introduced the idea of consciousness through her lecture video and how it was founded.  Consciousness is simply the state of being conscious, or basically just meaning that someone is aware that you are alive and functioning. Consciousness was established by significant scientists, such as Franz Joseph Gall, Pierre Paul Broca, and Santiago Ramón y Cajal.  These scientists have a similar, but the different explanations of consciousness.
 
 
 
 
 
Unconsciousness was addressed in ProfessorVesnas second lecture video. I found this subject of matter to be most interesting because I've had the interest in this before it was introduced to the idea of unconsciousness or subconsciousness.  Dreams are considered in parallel with the term unconsciousness because they are what people encounter while being unconscious. Freud and Carl Gustav Jung were the two main scientists of the concept of unconsciousness, but numerous present-day scientists and artists have made this topic the center of their research/artwork.

Work Cited 
Anker, Suzanne, and Giovanni Frazzetto. "Neuroculture." Nature Reviews Neuroscience. N.p., n.d. Web. 22 May 2017. <http://www.academia.edu/6200034/Neuroculture>. 
"A Dangerous Method (2011)." IMDb. IMDb.com, n.d. Web. 22 May 2017. <http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1571222/>. 
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Nichols, Hannah. "Dreams: Why Do We Dream?" Medical News Today. MediLexicon International, n.d. Web. 22 May 2017. <http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/284378.php>. 
"Santiago Ramón Y Cajal." Biography.com. A&E Networks Television, 02 Apr. 2014. Web. 22 May 2017. <http://www.biography.com/people/santiago-ram%C3%B3n-y-cajal-39848>.

Comments

  1. UnknownMay 30, 2017 at 7:30 AM

    Rachel,
    I like how your post focused on the conscious and unconscious and how fascinated you are in both of these topics. In leu of Memorial Day I have had the pleasure of working with Veterans in Dallas, Texas and learning about how they control each of these. Many have seen such horrible things while they have been deployed, and must go to therapy. It is easy to learn how to control the conscious; when they are awake it is easy for them to learn to block these visions out or how to control themselves when their PTSD arrises, but it is not that easy to control the unconscious or subconscious. One of the hardest things these veterans have to learn how to do is control this part of the brain, that way when they are sleeping and they have visions of what they have been through, or their PTSD pops up in their dreams, they can control it. This is what therapy is teaching a lot of these veterans now, and like you I find it fascinating.

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  2. Eun-Bin HongMay 30, 2017 at 10:55 AM

    I like how you analyzed the functions and definitions of consciousness and unconsciousness; you made a clear distinction between the two. Moreover, by further explaining the parallel relationship between dreams and unconsciousness. I wish you had provided more details on drugs as well so that you could have provided a more comprehensive overview of the lecture.

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