RE: why do we enjoy poetry From the perspective of neuroscience?
December 26, 2018 at 1:29 am
(This post was last modified: December 26, 2018 at 1:32 am by zainab.)
(December 25, 2018 at 11:07 am)downbeatplumb Wrote:(December 25, 2018 at 1:51 am)zainab Wrote: Hello everybody,
This is my first post, forgive me for my weak English: blush:
My question is (How) .. not (Why) actually ...
How do we enjoy prose, poetry or any kind of literary arts?
From the perspective of neuroscience?
What is the deep origin of tasting metaphore?
I don't enjoy poetry.
check your brain
(December 25, 2018 at 8:40 pm)Belaqua Wrote:(December 25, 2018 at 11:12 am)Jörmungandr Wrote: That's really cool. My usual response to something like this is to default to saying we really don't know, it's impossible to study, yada yada. I guess I shouldn't be so hasty in concluding what we do or do not know from ignorance.
I'm afraid that the article doesn't help much. It says that poems we remember activate the part of the brain associated with memory, and poems we're trying to figure out active the part of the brain that works to figure things out. Etc.
It doesn't address the real problem at all, which is how electrochemical events in the brain somehow present themselves to us as abstract ideas. No one has any idea how meat-cells expending energy give rise to thoughts of justice, and since good poetry complicates thoughts like this even more, one of the things good poetry does is to take us further away from any clear correlation between brain events and thought.
WOW! Do you mean that science not even close to solve this?
