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Each image is the result of presenting someone with the question 'Where is your mind?' above a non-gendered outline of a human body. | |||
By asking them to draw their answer and presenting them with an image of the Human Body, this forced the responder to unconsciously re phrase the question in order to answer it, since it is very hard to describe a location for consciousness because it is itself non-spatial (Consciousness and space, Colin McGinn) and not 'a thing'. | |||
So it seems most re-phrased it as 'where do I experience my awareness?' | |||
or 'what part of my body is my mind focused on most of the time?' | |||
This interpretation of the question resulted in many people circling the head, hands, heart, stomach, and occasionally the whole body. | |||
I scanned the 100 odd responses, which you see here. | |||
My personal favourite is the the one with the prism that looks like a black triangle in the head with a dotted line entering. This illustrates the view that the mind is not created by the brain, but instead is transformed by it. Here the brain acts more like a radio, tuning into different channels, instead of the reductionist view of the brain as a factory of consciousness. Instead Consciousness can be seen to act through the brain, and not just as some 'emergent property' of the brain. | |||
Henry Bergson has a theory similar to this view called 'Radio reception theory of consciousness' which invited us to consider the Brain as transceiver. Certainly fits closer to the many subjective reports of conscious experiences in Near death events. | |||
I like not only the aesthetics resulting from video feedback systems, but also the metaphorical connotations one can ascribe to it, as did Nam June Paik with his 'Zen for TV' and 'TV Buddha' and the empty cycle of images. | |||
The beginning of: 'Video Feedback history research and artists who have made reference to the observer observing observation' | The beginning of: 'Video Feedback history research and artists who have made reference to the observer observing observation' | ||