Art, Reality, and the Brain: The Quest for Aesthetic Universals - Dr. V.S. Ramachandran

Dr. V.S. Ramachandran, Director of the Center for Brain and Cognition and Distinguished Professor with the Psychology Department and Neuroscience Program at the University of California, San Diego at the San Francisco Asian Art Forum for Museum Directors at the Asian Art Museum (November 8-9, 2011)

[@warrenwickremesooriya9167]

Incredibly insightful and enlightening. More artists and philosophers need to watch this. Truly amazing.

[@preciadojorge]

this man is a genius - I learned a lot

[@LavoniaMorris]

If you are short on time, but are trying to get to the most relative art specific bits, skip to 39 minutes in. Isolation may be referred to as emphasis in art. It's a fascinating look into aesthetics, for further study from an artistic perspective, see also the elements of art and the principles of design.

[@mtisc1]

Very interesting and funny. Ramachandran is a great speaker. Thanks a lot

[@Christianflorescordova]

Excellent lecture.

[@tamsinthai]

I'm synesthesic . Always have been. I just thought everyone saw numbers/words in colour. I am an artist.

[@woodsarthobbies6515]

Interesting!

[@davitjanashia9344]

I like this lecture, but about leonardo da vinci it was too much )) depends what you want to express. you think that he was not able to draw horse which is running with big speed for example?! )) but other things were pretty interesting!!

[@farhanaislam3387]

awesome

[@DanielaHorovitz]

Aren't the lightnings / colorings of areas in the brain, which you are seeing on the monitor, in fact a metabolic function /response?

[@MusicMAAD]

What about synesthesia in comedians?

[@JohnVKaravitis]

Brains. It's what's for dinner. Yum! (Tastes a little like liver.)

[@ArtDivineIndia]

Lovely...but we have a WHITE Paramahamsa jagadish with ormus elements who's not at all Indian and is selling 'gold' better than them... and he has a website.

[@justicepartyuk]

Only God could had made Brain

[@letter3361]

horrible mistake in history, Freud has had too much impact to interpret human sexual relationship as incest kind of desire. We can speak about Oedipus complex but is wrong, Oedipus story is tragedy as it is in Greek mythological sense and end up to murder, Oedipus was not aware about incest. Reader is aware but not person inside story. May I say Freudian theory serves death not psychiatry-neurolgy (it has to be changed to neurology, as brain research psychiatry is based on stupidity-imbeciles, only emotions what are coming from humiliating and torturing patients etc) but criminal behaviour. It has make illusion between parents and children, more sexual biases to act correctly when sexual thought come to topical in teenage years, making incest more acceptable even think. Bonobo monkey theory doesent help it at all ... sex is not love love is not sex, sex is kind of mechanical act of human body but whit love it expression of love not anger, sex can be expression of anger as subordination each other .. stop taking sex as love!!!! Every fu...rapist love Freud so much. I lost my nerves totally!