Browsing by Subject "neuroscience"

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    Medicine and the Arts Week 3 - Art and play
    (2015-01-21) Solms, Mark
    In this video, neuropsychologist Mark Solms explains how, from a neuroscientific perspective, our innate drive to play might be an underlying evolutionary mechanism for testing real world interactions. He suggests that art is then an expression of the human instinct to play and artistic expression offers society ways of creatively representing meaning. This is the fifth video in Week 3 of the Medicine and the Arts Massive Open Online Course.
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    Medicine and the Arts Week 3 - Art embodies values
    (2015-01-21) Solms, Mark
    In this video, neuropsychologist Mark Solms describes how he sees neuroscience offering some insights into understanding how people respond to art and make aesthetic judgments. He argues that there is an underlying evolutionary explanation for these aesthetic judgements and suggests that the medical humanities can draw on other disciplinary fields in order to consider other perspectives on being human. This is the fourth video in Week 3 of the Medicine and the Arts Massive Open Online Course.
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    Medicine and the Arts Week 4 - Cultivating creative thoughts
    (2015-01-21) Baghai-Wadji, Alireza
    In this video, Alireza Baghai-Wadji, and electrical engineer, explores various questions related to creativity, its origins, and the idea that creativity is an ability that can be acquired. He also he discusses his ideas about the converging worlds of physics, philosophy, and neuroscience in order to get us thinking about the processes that drive our most inventive thinking. This is the second video in Week 4 of the Medicine and the Arts Massive Open Online Course.
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    What is a Mind Week 1 - What are you if not your mind?
    (2015-08-15) Solms, Mark
    In this video, Professor Mark Solms explores the central question of the course: What is a mind? He discusses the different disciplines, from neurosciences to the Humanities, which have asked this question in different ways, and how they each provide different perspectives on the central question. He unpacks the question in detail and, in doing so, presents further questions which he aims to address in videos that follow. This is video 2 in Week 1 of the What is a Mind MOOC.
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    What is a Mind Week 4 - Anatomy and physiology of intentionality
    (2015-08-15) Solms, Mark
    In this video, Professor Mark Solms explores intentionality form a neuroscientific perspective. He describes the limbic circuits connecting the upper brain stem with the forebrain. This is video 2 in Week 4 of the What is a Mind MOOC.
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    What is a Mind Week 5 - Instincts and learning
    (2015-08-15) Solms, Mark
    In this video, Professor Mark Solms introduces the fourth defining property of the mind: agency, the ability to choose between possible actions. He briefly provides a scientific perspective on what agency consists in, refering to evolutionary theories and neural circuity. This is video 1 in Week 5 of the What is a Mind MOOC.