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The Emerging Mind: The Reith Lectures 2003But I hope the "laws of art" I've discussed might give you some hints about the general form of a future theory of art. The solution to the problem of aesthetics, I believe, lies in a more thorough understanding of the connections between the 30 visual centres in your brain and the emotional limbic structures. And once we have achieved a clear understanding of these connections, we will be closer to bridging the huge gulf that separates C.P. Snow's two cultures - science on the one hand and Arts, philosophy and humanities on the other. We could be at the dawning of a new age where specialisation becomes old-fashioned and a new 21st century version of the Renaissance man is born. Lecture 4: Purple Numbers and Sharp Cheese In the 19th century, the Victorian scientist Francis Galton, who was a cousin of Charles Darwin, noticed something very peculiar. He found that certain people in the normal population who were otherwise perfectly normal had a certain peculiarity and that is every time they heard a specific tone, they would experience a specific colour ...» |
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