The Matter of Vision. Peter Wyeth

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СКАЧАТЬ target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="#ulink_a48b4614-2b37-539a-9987-5b2fa4447b92">29Damasio, Descartes’ Error, Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain, op. cit.

      30Metz: ‘Le cinéma: langue ou langage?’, 1964, Volume 4, No 4, pp. 52–90.

      31‘dreams are most often reasonable simulations of waking life that contain occasional unusual features in terms of settings, characters, or activities (Dorus et al., 1971; Foulkes, 1985; Hall & Van de Castle, 1966; Snyder, 1970)’ in Domhoff, G. W. (2005). Refocusing the neurocognitive approach to dreams: A critique of the Hobson versus Solms debate. Dreaming, 15, 3–20.

      32See the later discussion, in On Method, about the boundaries between the physical and the metaphysical.

      33Description taken from Dehaene p. 94 op. cit.

      34These experiments have become almost apocryphal in film-study, and represent an early interest in linking science to Cinema in the optimistic period after the Russian Revolution. They are often regarded as establishing editing as a unique element of the new medium, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuleshov_Effect

      35For the Gazzaniga experiment see p. 281 in Norretranders op cit.

      36It is worth distinguishing here between the ‘natural’ skills of Vision technically, as it were, and the ‘cultural’ evolutionary learning involved in their use, such as being able to distinguish between a mushroom that tastes wonderful and one that will kill you.

      37Christian Metz, Film Language, University of Chicago press, Chicago, 1990.

      38Jacques Lacan, the leading figure in psycho-analysis in France at the rise of Film Theory. The French neuroscientist Stanislas Dehaene quotes his colleague Lionel Naccache to the effect that “the unconscious is not structured like a language but as a decaying exponential” – indicating the decay of unconscious memory that does not enter consciousness. See p 104 ‘Consciousness and the Brain. S Dehaene, Viking, New York, 2014, also see Commentaries on ‘Consciousness and the Unconscious’.

      39See Steven Weinberg, Dreams of a Final Theory, Vintage, New York, 1993, commenting on philosophy.

      40see Antonio Damasio, Descartes’ Error, op. cit.

      41Schopenhauer’s view of Hegel’s philosophy.

      42See Martin Jay, Downcast Eyes – The Denigration of Vision in Twentieth Century French Thought, op. cit.

      43See section on Emotion (p. 17) for an operational definition from Joseph LeDoux. Since this section was written I read Stanislas Dehaene on Consciousness, and he applies a similar philosophy to the treatment of subjective reports as raw data which, together with the approach of Dream-Science to dreams creates a triple confirmation of this revolution in scientific method.

      44Quoted in Downcast Eyes, Martin Jay. op. cit.

      45Richard Dawkins’ comment on Lacan’s discussion of science: ‘the author of this stuff is a fake’, in a review of Alan Sokal, Jean Bricmont (1988) Intellectual Impostures, London, Profile Books.

      46If that isn’t false-memory syndrome it was a wry comment on a social occasion rather than a public pronouncement.

      47For those born blind, again it is suggested that the brain provides alternative circuits for the processing of Vision which the sighted also possess but become relied upon exclusively by those without sight.

      48The sense intended here is that evolution has developed the brain’s functions and thus those functions are always the product of evolutionary pressures.

      49See Commentaries section on ‘Art & Science’ p. 127 for discussion of these developments that help to suggest the depth of analysis ANB can bring to an understanding of Cinema.

      50Intelligent in the sense of providing more and better-quality analytical information.

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      The Matter of Vision: Aphorisms

This section is composed of aphorisms as a stimulus to thought – in vision of course. There are rhythms that will require perseverance. They may be more like shots than words, a poor sort of film that you can improve. ‘The aphorism never covers itself with truth, it is either half-true, or one-and-a-half-times true.’⁵¹

       I. Propositions

      i

      The history of hitherto existing societies⁵² has been the prisoner of three stern gaolers Language, Consciousness and Reason.

      The imprisoned are

      Vision, the Automatic and Emotion.

      Language

      confines

      Vision

      Consciousness

      effaces

      The Automatic

      Reason

      corrals

Emotion⁵³

      ii

      Emotion

      Emotion is the key

      The brain is Emotion

Emotion is the brain⁵⁴.

      Emotion ignites the brain.

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