Blog #8

Part 2:

John Lehrer’s main argument throughout his essay “the Future of Science.. is Art?” is almost depicted throughout the title. His main points of emphasis on his arguments had to do with the sciences and how they are at a standstill on developing new evidence and theories on figuring out the world we all live in. Because of this, Lehrer argues that the next step for the sciences to be incorporated with arts due to the fact that art reaches new aspects of the mind that sciences have not. He looks to science in a sense as the physical evidence towards what is being theorized or presented and uses art as the cognitive thinking you would endure with such presentation. I personally felt that throughout most of his essay that he was presenting what he thought to be evidence towards this idea but was never very supportive to the idea until the end. He at the beginning made me feel like he questioned if  science relied on art but, it was not towards the end of his essay where he boldly states science needs art.

 

Part 3:

the bridging principle- the neural event that would explain how the activity of our brain cells creates the subjective experience of consciousness(text). To summarize that the activity of our brain our neurological thoughts that when in use create our thoughts and are physical feelings and movements.

Synapse- the junction between two nerve cells which impulses pass by through diffusion of the neurotransmitter (dictionary). This is the space where our unconscious nerves about the event at stake are transferred across this “synapse” to the conscious processing part of our brain for movement to happen.

epiphenomenon- a secondary effect that arrises from but does not influence a process causally(dictionary). that when a stimulus or event happens the predicted outcome comes but also an unpredicted one in this sense but does not influence the results of what happens.

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