"This insight implied that the brain is a creativity machine, which obtains incomplete information from the outside world and completes it."
— Kandel, Eric R. (b. 1929)
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Date
April 12, 2013
Metaphor
"This insight implied that the brain is a creativity machine, which obtains incomplete information from the outside world and completes it."
Metaphor in Context
This insight implied that the brain is a creativity machine, which obtains incomplete information from the outside world and completes it. We can see this with illusions and ambiguous figures that trick our brain into thinking that we see things that are not there. In this sense, a task of figurative painting is to convince the beholder that an illusion is true.
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Citation
What the Brain Can Tell Us About Art The New York Times (April 12, 2013). <Link to NYTimes.com>
Date of Entry
04/15/2013
