This week we discussed at length the structure of the mind, specifically the realms of: Thought, Imagination, Creativity, Understanding, Knowledge, and Intuition. First we had to define these. The two major realms: Thought(conscious): Actively manipulating ideas and memories and the like. Intuition: A form of unconscious thought involving a coming together of instinct, and experience. The other four all fall within these two main realms, with a bit of overlap. Imagination: a form of thinking, typically creatively, and a way to interpret intuition. Creativity: Artistic imaginative thinking, does not involve intuition at all. Understanding: Can be initiated by interpreting intuition, though typically stays within the realm of conscious thought. Knowledge: The result of conscious thought directed at understanding, though can sometimes be the result of imagination and understanding together, only resides within conscious thought.
This is the way I see the mind as being structured when defined by just these specific realms. This is best shown with a diagram, but I have no form of creating such a thing on the computer. However, it becomes evident that the unconscious can greatly influence normal thought.
How much do you think the unconscious influences our day to day thought?
Sunday, December 12, 2010
Response to Denise's question
"Is art just an attempt to capture the experience of being alive?"
It certainly is if you share any of the views regarding art as: Experience, and Communication among a few others. This is rather obvious when considering art as experience. With art as communication the primary use for communication is to share experience, with secondary goals of sharing emotion. An example of this to include bad, or, poor art would be a child's drawing portraying a house and family. This is communicating that the child has a house and parents and siblings. The child grows older, and his/her technical skill progressed as well as his/her understanding of communication, symbolism, art, and emotion. They produce a new work, this time a small black dot, surrounded by a white gap, then a surrounding circle of blood red that fills the rest of the canvas. This work, instead of simplistically communicating facts, representationally communicates, as the artist claims, a feeling of loneliness, peer pressure, depression, among other things.
Are both works art?
It certainly is if you share any of the views regarding art as: Experience, and Communication among a few others. This is rather obvious when considering art as experience. With art as communication the primary use for communication is to share experience, with secondary goals of sharing emotion. An example of this to include bad, or, poor art would be a child's drawing portraying a house and family. This is communicating that the child has a house and parents and siblings. The child grows older, and his/her technical skill progressed as well as his/her understanding of communication, symbolism, art, and emotion. They produce a new work, this time a small black dot, surrounded by a white gap, then a surrounding circle of blood red that fills the rest of the canvas. This work, instead of simplistically communicating facts, representationally communicates, as the artist claims, a feeling of loneliness, peer pressure, depression, among other things.
Are both works art?
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