Unit 7 Biotech and Art

Some of the archetypes

I found this week's material especially interesting. We have been around for centuries and centuries yet many of the questions posed in this weeks material are still being researched today. I think the part I found the most interesting was lecture 2 about dreams. This state of being conscious or unconscious is thought about in several different ways and yet with all the research done about it is still impossible to really know what is going on just like with science. The part that resonated with me and made me think of this neuroscience as an art form was when professor Vesna talked about the 5 most common archetypes in the context of collective conscious and how they manifest through images and through all religions and cultures. It is not something we can be educated on, but rather something we are born with.

According to Roger Penrose, the conscious is something that may not be beyond physics, but it is just something we do not know yet. In a world and society in which we think we almost know everything, it is amazing to see that the mind is something that there is still so much to learn about. The mind is a truly amazing part of our body.




Another part of the lectures that I found interesting and never really thought of a "form of art" was Part 3 when professor Vesna talked about drugs and how they are essentially altering our perspective. With LSD Hoffman explained the experience as something like in a "dreamlike state with pictures and shapes with extraordinary color". Interestingly another time he took LSD he had a terrible dreamlike state in which he thought he was possessed by demons and everyone around him was a witch. I've always thought of drugs as bad so the form so the art that is within them has kind of always been overshadowed but I did really enjoy learning about the true form that these drugs take on.




Vesna, V. (2019). Art and Biotechnology Part II. [Video Lecture]. Retrieved from https://cole2.uconline.edu/courses/1067208/pages/unit-2-view?module_item_id=26086622.


Vesna, V. (2019). Art and Biotechnology Part III. [Video Lecture]. Retrieved from https://cole2.uconline.edu/courses/1067208/pages/unit-2-view?module_item_id=26086622.

Penrose, Roger. "Consciousness Involves Noncomputable Ingredients". Chapter 14. Retrieved from https://www.edge.org/documents/ThirdCulture/v-Ch.14.html

Hartney, Elizabeth. " The five bad acid trips stories". https://www.verywellmind.com/five-bad-acid-trip-stories-22096. 5 May 2019

Cherry, Kendra. " What are Jungs 4 major archetypes. https://www.verywellmind.com/what-are-jungs-4-major-archetypes-2795439. 2 April 2019

The Mind Fit Series for Brain Health https://lajollabythesea.com/event/the-mind-fit-series-for-brain-health-2/