John Matturri wrote:
> As a means of learning about how images are processed by the brain
> and also understanding the nature of consciousness? As someone who
> is interested in understanding how we process images it might
> certainly be useful for me, as has, for example, research on
> recognitional processes.
yes, brain-studies will be largely benefited. but can't 'art' make
these discoveries in a joyful environment, like kids do? playing with
computers and video-games as we have no precise purpose for it? my
"why on earth" was: how can a diseased or suffering person benefit
from this? as example.
I'm afraid of discoveries for the joy of discoveries that only
becomes a dubious north-american channel.
> Make advances in in the traditionally drearily unproductive field
> of philosophical aesthetics?
aesthetics are a lifetime study... i don't believe it is lacking
studies or that it is unproductive.(at least for me, as I didn't read
Aristotle's yet and I never could access fully the 17th century
studies on aesthetics, as an example). maybe economically
unproductive. but again, that was my question: how can these studies
profit without being 'marketing research' that will only make us feel
more like a captive monkey. "oooooh, a perfect frame for my cognitive
process, it says 'buy'" "ooooh, lights that we cannot resist, it is
screening exactly the way my brain best can get it, I cannot resist.
let's buy this something."
it will only turn to a more educated "oooh" like "ooooh, video-
psychological-research-semantics, used to sell something – as there
is no other way it could get funding – and we discovered it"
great. see? I'm just being a little pessimistic, so that maybe we
could be really optimistic about things. not just specifically or
specialisedly so, leading us into a latent trap.
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