Event 3
Last week, I attended Mark Cohen's presentation on the Art and Brain concept we learned in class. I was intrigued by his presentation because he starts to discuss the brain specifically the depictions shown in MRI's. I was gravitated into this presentation because Professor Vesna mentioned the "Octopus Brainstorming" so I wanted to figure out what exactly this was. His work was centered on a philosophical viewpoint in determining how the brain plays a role as a detector. MRI scan Cohen starts his presentation by comparing the brain as a detector but towards one's beliefs. He states how an MRI can show signals in which people tend to believe things or disbelieve what is said. This is not 100% accurate but it is an interesting experiment. As a Political Science major, I would be interested how the belief detector will react to political beliefs and how this can be a political use for a ...