RE: why do we enjoy poetry From the perspective of neuroscience?
December 31, 2018 at 1:32 am
(This post was last modified: December 31, 2018 at 1:52 am by Belacqua.)
(December 31, 2018 at 12:55 am)zainab Wrote: I wish i have a long life just to see if there is ahope.. that we could solve this
In a way it's frustrating, because we are getting a clearer view of how much we can't understand.
If you're hoping for a paradigm shift, I guess it's cheering to see that our current paradigms of science are starting to unravel. There are more and more issues that seem nonsensical or insoluble by any current theories.
This is what happened with the old paradigm. After all, the geocentric model worked very well in practice for more than a thousand years. Every time someone used it to predict an eclipse or navigate by the stars safely to harbor, it gave added confidence to the Ptolemaic model. It took a long time for observations to cast doubt on that model. And understandably, after a thousand plus years of solid empirical evidence, a lot of people were unwilling to give it up based on Galileo's early, not-yet-confirmed studies. We all see the old paradigm-breakers as heroes, because we live safely distant from the controversy. But we can be confident that whoever throws the first brick will be ridiculed and reviled by the establishment of today.
For a clear introduction to the limits of our current paradigm, here is a speech by Chomsky. Note particularly what he says about the brain/mind problem.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5in5EdjhD0
He is not optimistic that we will ever be able to solve the big problems that are starting to present themselves.
