| [ KAIST ] in KIDS 글 쓴 이(By): homer (simpson) 날 짜 (Date): 2003년 10월 21일 화요일 오전 06시 19분 26초 제 목(Title): Re: 미의 근원을 찾아 - 마치면서 이건 쇼팽님께 도움이 될 것 같아서 전문 중 일부를 퍼왔습니다. 전문이 필요하면 말씀하세요. http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/293/5527/51 Science, 283:51--52, 2001. ESSAYS ON SCIENCE AND SOCIETY: Artistic Creativity and the Brain Semir Zeki Charles Darwin argued in The Origin of Species that variability, one of the chief determinants of evolution, is greatest in structures that evolve fastest. In humans, the brain is the most variable and fastest evolving organ. We cannot at present ascribe this variability to any well-defined structure or component in the brain. Rather, we infer it through the wide differences in, for example, intelligence, sensitivities, creative abilities, and skills. Art is one expression of this variability. Its neurological study will therefore elucidate not only the source of one of the richest subjective experiences of which we are capable but also the determinants of the variability in its creation and appreciation, and hence elucidate one of the most important characteristics of the human brain. ... The future field of what I call neuroesthetics will, I hope, study the neural basis of artistic creativity and achievement, starting with the elementary perceptual process. I am convinced that there can be no satisfactory theory of aesthetics that is not neurobiologically based. All human activity is ultimately a product of the organization of our brains, and subject to its laws. I therefore hope that neuroesthetics will broaden to tackle other issues, such as the neural basis of religious belief and the relation between morality, jurisprudence, and brain function--questions that are fundamental in man's quest to understand himself. Like art, these play a critical role in our lives and are also subject to the quality of variability that is at the heart of our civilization. I shall be surprised if such an understanding does not modify radically our view of ourselves and our societies. The author is in the Department of Cognitive Neurology, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK. E-mail: zeki.pa@ucl.ac.uk --- D'oh! |