Self-reference and the “I”

Where does art come from? I imag­ine a cer­tain anal­o­gy with the dis­course and dis­cus­sions about whether math­e­mat­ics is “out there” and we dis­cov­er it, or if we cre­ate math­e­mat­ics? If you look at your­self in the mir­ror; who or what is look­ing at you? The self-ref­er­ence. Dou­glas Hof­s­tadter devel­ops the theme and so much more in his rich and inter­est­ing book “I am a strange loop.” The cre­ative self; there are those who in con­ver­sa­tion say “I think …” but still deny that some­thing like one I exist. Inter­est­ing. Can aware­ness rec­og­nize itself? You look at your­self; what do mir­ror neu­rons reflect?

Any­way, cre­at­ing is nice I think. And I think my brain agrees.
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Creating art makes sense…

…feel it.

There is research and a lot of anec­dotes about the ben­e­fits of cre­ation and pos­i­tive effects, of course it does not only apply to visu­al art. Will write some posts about the research.

From PubMed:

The Role of the Visu­al Arts in Enhanc­ing the Learn­ing Process

How can we devel­op tech­niques in learn­ing to engage the emo­tions? Learn­ing should not be dri­ven by fear but by desire. Why are the arts con­sid­ered sep­a­rate from the sci­ences? What were the first arts? How did the sci­en­tif­ic enquir­ing mind arise?”

d’Amboise (2008)

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Escaping the fire

Brän­der. 81 hit­tils döda i Grekland. 

 

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Before the inflation theory

Grun­nade på tankar om Big Bang när jag ska­pade den­na. Ingen uppen­bar kop­pling månne, men Big Bang, infla­tion­ste­orin är gäckande, spännande.

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Intressant jämförelse mellan Mindfulness meditation och Loving Kindness meditation

Positive Emotion Correlates of Meditation
Practice: a Comparison of Mindfulness Meditation
and Loving-Kindness Meditation  link
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Gravitational waves

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Kreationera mera

Jag gillar att bara bör­ja någon­stans; sät­ta ned penseln, ja i dessa fall dig­i­ta­la sådana och bara bör­ja “leka” på, se vad som kom­mer, utan att ha någon med­veten plan. Explo­rativt. Avkopplande. 

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Fotokonst

Ny fotokon­st. Såg ut över land­skapet där jag bor på lan­det; aspar, björkar, en åker, en höjd. Och så blev det så här. 

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Did some video shooting for Robert Lauri’s music video

 

…and it was fun.

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