I am really interested about this week's topic of neuroscience and art, because neuroscience look into the mind and discover the relationship between consciousness and unconsciousness. Also it studies the powerful field of mind control. It is amazing to think about that the nanoscale neurons in your brain actually have optimized tree-shape to communicate with each other and that's how govern your mind and therefore your body, so study of neuron can explain every human activity, personality and behavior in the world.
I'm impressed by the technique of Brainbow which visualizes individual neuron by using fluorescent proteins. The resulting image is really striking and colorful. It is a great piece of artwork. Like what Santiago Ramon y Cajal, a great scientist and artist who draw so many iconic pictures of neuron that still used in textbooks nowadays, says that "only artists are attractive to science and originally want to be an artist", science is the source of inspiration of art. The study of neuroscience allows artists to create artworks like Brainbow that help people understand nervous system better in return. Once again we can see how closely art and science are related.
I'm also interested in the study of dream. Dream is a way to travel through time and space, and it represents human's unlimited power of imagination.The unconscious mind can be seen as the source of dreams. Unlike other skills that people gain during school or from society, dream is a psychic archetype that endowed with everybody since the birth. A great deal of complex cognitive processing occurs at the unconscious level and affects how humans behave, think, and feel. This reminds me of the movie Inception: the characters in the movie can change people's mind by idea implantation. Therefore we can see the relationship between consciousness and unconsciousness. To study the boundary between them leads to a lots of research related to neuroscience which is a board and promising field.
Work Cited
Vensa, Victoria. "Consciousness/Memory." Youtube. Uconlineprogram, 17 May 2012. Web. 15 May 2015. <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzXjNbKDkYI>
Vensa, Victoria. "Unconscious Mind and Drean" Youtube. Uconlineprogram, 17 May 2012. Web. 16 May 2015. < https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFv4owX3MZo>
Berlin, Heather A. "The Neural Basis of the Dynamic Unconscious." Neuropsychoanalysis. Nyu, 13 Jan. 2011. Web. 15 May 2015.<http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/philo/faculty/block/papers/BerlinTreatment.pdf>
Hi Jingyi! I can absolutely relate to your post. I really enjoyed this week's topic as well. I also appreciate Brainbow for its unique techniques and amazing results. Because some biotechnology discussed last week that uses similar techniques for fluorescence, I was wondering what was your insight on those implementations as opposed to Brainbow.
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