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Week 7: Neuroscience + Art
In the image below, artist Eli Joteva used this to represent the human brain at work. This depiction is relative to this week's topic because it deals with consciousness. If artists are able to create these types of images of the human mind, can they serve as a blueprint to pioneer something as advanced as artificial intelligence? Much like how artists studied the human body and created drawings of it to help understand its functionality on a deeper level, perhaps this same method can be used to understand the mind.
Carl Jung, Giovanni Frazzetto, and Suzanne Anker all discuss neuroscience as well as this new concept of "neuroculture." In Frazzetto and Anker's piece, they discuss how the topic of neuroscience is becoming a part of our daily lives, making it a part of humanity's culture. This is causing artists to make their own renditions that capture the essence of what they believe neuroscience is. Their work illustrates multiple concepts and ideas that are released to the general public. Like Eli Joteva, many artists create interpretations of consciousness. They go on to say how the brain is different than organs in that it is a feature of "being" rather than "having." This poses an interesting question in regards to artificial intelligence. If each human brain is truly unique and gives its respective body this being over having type of feeling, how will a robot absorb that same process? One thing that proves the extreme value of the brain is the fact that doctors are able to perform transplant surgery on just about every human body part except the brain. Because it is practically impossible to transplant a brain from one human to another, it would seem much harder to put a functioning brain inside of a robot.
This week's topic seemed to make me ask more questions if anything. Although neuroscience is becoming a part of our culture, I'm sure there are many just as confused as I am. Will the ability to create consciousness in robots be possible in the near future? If so, the question then becomes if we will begin to fear our own creation; the possibility that we as humans could create something more intelligent than ourselves.
Varela, Francisco; Rosch, Eleanor; & Thompson, Evan. "The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience." Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1991. Print.
In the image below, artist Eli Joteva used this to represent the human brain at work. This depiction is relative to this week's topic because it deals with consciousness. If artists are able to create these types of images of the human mind, can they serve as a blueprint to pioneer something as advanced as artificial intelligence? Much like how artists studied the human body and created drawings of it to help understand its functionality on a deeper level, perhaps this same method can be used to understand the mind.
Eli Joveta's Future Representation
Carl Jung, Giovanni Frazzetto, and Suzanne Anker all discuss neuroscience as well as this new concept of "neuroculture." In Frazzetto and Anker's piece, they discuss how the topic of neuroscience is becoming a part of our daily lives, making it a part of humanity's culture. This is causing artists to make their own renditions that capture the essence of what they believe neuroscience is. Their work illustrates multiple concepts and ideas that are released to the general public. Like Eli Joteva, many artists create interpretations of consciousness. They go on to say how the brain is different than organs in that it is a feature of "being" rather than "having." This poses an interesting question in regards to artificial intelligence. If each human brain is truly unique and gives its respective body this being over having type of feeling, how will a robot absorb that same process? One thing that proves the extreme value of the brain is the fact that doctors are able to perform transplant surgery on just about every human body part except the brain. Because it is practically impossible to transplant a brain from one human to another, it would seem much harder to put a functioning brain inside of a robot.
Robot Brain
This week's topic seemed to make me ask more questions if anything. Although neuroscience is becoming a part of our culture, I'm sure there are many just as confused as I am. Will the ability to create consciousness in robots be possible in the near future? If so, the question then becomes if we will begin to fear our own creation; the possibility that we as humans could create something more intelligent than ourselves.
Conscious Robot?
Works Cited
Bateson, Gregory. "Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity." N.p., N.d. Web.
http://www.oikos.org/mind&nature.htm
Frazzetto, Giovanni & Anker, Suzanne. "Neuroculture." Macmillan Publishers Limited, 2009. Pdf.
Gardner, Howard. "Art, Mind, and Brain: A Cognitive Approach to Creativity." N.p., 1982. Print.
Jung, Carl. "The Spiritual Problem of Modern Man." N.p., N.d. Pdf.
Varela, Francisco; Rosch, Eleanor; & Thompson, Evan. "The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience." Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1991. Print.
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