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A Role for Art in the Science of Consciousness?| old_uid | 799 |
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| title | A Role for Art in the Science of Consciousness? |
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| start_date | 2006/03/08 |
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| schedule | 16h |
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| online | no |
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| summary | Although there are many ways in which science can assist in the production, appreciation and analysis of art, I will explore the converse possibility: the ways in which creative artistic practice and theory can aid our attempts to understand, in a scientific way, subjective experiential states. Specifically, a science of conscious experience requires a systematic phenomenology within which to identify the phenomena to be explained, yet orthodox (linguistic, literal, disembodied, abstract) means of doing so typically fail to capture the richness, affect and subjectivity of consciousness. I propose that scientists and philosophers look to the arts for creative methods and techniques of specifying experiential states. However, any such project faces a considerable challenge: Can it be done in a way that not only does justice to the richness of subjective experiential states, but that also permits rigorous, systematic reference to them? This lecture attempts to lay some of the conceptual groundwork necessary for answering these questions. |
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| responsibles | Bishop |
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