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Originally Posted by Ben Thornton
Amazon has it in stock at $34.95, but I'm managing to resist. Looks like a page-turner.
Have you seen Ramachandran's presentations on cognition and visual art? They're interesting.
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Oh absolutely a page turner - and I'm even reading it as a pbook, so there's dedication for you. Had a lecture on Ramachandran just last week (I'm a, what we call in the UK, "mature" MA student, but I'm studying in Denmark, where there isn't an equivalent concept, so I'm just a bit weird here). My prof thinks Ramachandran has got it the wrong way round - when we encounter a painting, for example, we've already solved the object recognition problem - which is central to R's thesis - we know what the object is - it's a painting. The puzzle is, how does it come to have the meaning that it has.
Do hope your post has brought this thread to a long overdue end - perhaps we should start one on the aesthetic value of literary works of art
