the enchanted loom reviews leonard shlain's book, leonardo's brain
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The Enchanted LoomTeasing sturdy threads from
neuroscience masterworks
Teasing 10 threads fromLeonard Shlain’s …
Thread 1:
“The artist is the antenna of the race.” ~ Ezra Pound
(pg. viii)
Thread 2:
Every ancient culture worshipped goddesses. Then Judaism, Islam and Christianity, founded on a sacred alphabet book, denied the existence of goddesses.(pg. xiii)
Thread 3:
Neurons that fire together, wire together. Neurons that fail to link, fail to sync.
(pg. 10)
Thread 4:
Most people unconsciously know that the right side of their face is best to present to the outside world. The left side is more a reflection of who they really are. (pg. 51)
Thread 5:
“As soon as we start putting our thoughts into words and sentences everything gets distorted, language is just no damn good. I use it because I have to, but I don’t put any trust in it.” (pg. 67)
Thread 6:
“Often we have to get away from speech in order to think clearly.”
(pg. 85)
Thread 7:
Think of the right and left hemispheres as Siamese Twins joined at the corpus callosum. In the process of generating a major creative insight, a dis- connect must occur between thetwo halves. This is called “hemispheric bisociation.”(pg. 92)
Thread 8:
One theory: the corpus callosum integrates information from each hemisphere, functioning as a third brain, producing some- thing qualitatively different from what each side generates individually.(pg. 93)
Thread 9:
“In women, the measurements of the corpus callosum, measured as a whole, or for specific measurements of any seven subdivisions of the callosum, are larger.”
(pg. 1611)
Thread 10:
A heightened alertness, a burst of energy, and an increased clarity of thought are common to both fear and creativity.
(pg. 97)
Image Credits:
Title Page: http://www.rappler.com/science-nature/23193-personality-traits-brain-scans
Slide 3 - http://ionamiller.weebly.com/artists-statements.html
Slide 12 - http://andreahannah.com/category/fear-solutions/
Slide 2 - http://http://likesuccess.com/729076
Slide 6 - https://www.pinterest.com/explore/beautiful-people/
Slide 5 - https://www.pinterest.com/explore/brain-cortex/
Slide 11 - http://femininepeace.org/the-colossal-commissure-corpus-callosum
Slide 10 - https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/brain-mapping----on-acid
Slide 9 - https://www.pinterest.com/pin/36099234491380201/
Slide 8 - http://bit.ly/2kgyNdK
Slide 7 - http://listverse.com/2013/03/26/ten-unusual-etymologies/
Slide 4 - http://rborozan.deviantart.com/art/Medusa-in-Denial-102692686
Slide 14 - http://www.rappler.com/science-nature/23193-personality-traits-brain-scans
Mark Brady, [email protected]
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