I think science is great: but don’t get put off by this as this website is about Art. ‘The talking mind’ is the reverse of what was suggested in an earlier article, ‘Speak Thinking’.
‘Speak thinking’ is to ‘trace’ the path of speech: from the brain to the vocal chords: getting ready for speech and editing before speech. It was suggested that the thinking part is fully played out by the vocal chords and sounded in the chest cavity before being carried out by the breath and you can monitor all your thinking in your breath. The edited part is then spoken. Not all of thinking is spoken. ‘The talking Mind’ is the reverse: what you hear is played out in your brain. There are a lot of implications with this. We all understand: i hear so i know. But what if with subliminal messages, i don’t hear, but i am unknowingly influenced anyway. This is the work of advertising: i see so i am unknowingly influenced. I subliminally hear and i am unknowingly influenced. There are implications in the Art’s and Art History. Business. Banking. Buy and selling of shares. ATM pin numbers. The colour of your tablecloth. Get it. The making of society and just about anything you know. And synthesis in the Art’s is also another ‘get it’: how do you know it is yours. Understand.
Science’s progress at present is hyperbolic. It found nothing on the Moon and Mars and so it decided to look in greater detail into the workings of the brain here on earth. It all adds or confirms to what the mystics knew through observation. The mystics know it all, totally, by observation because they observe the whole and science will always play a secondary role of confirmation because their observations are always localised and don’t take into account the interactions. Anyway this article came about because of the article i read in nature.com: “The brain’s electrical activity can be decoded to reconstruct which words a person is hearing……” and actually record it in the brain (with those electrodes) and then play it back.
http://www.nature.com/news/voicegrams-transform-brain-activity-into-words-1.9945
Hear your brain talk. If you would like to hear the playback from recordings in the brain as a result of hearing please use the link above.
The artist is like the scientist, he wants to understand the whole through the process of making Art.
When a mistake is made by an artist he realises that it did not come from the thinking mind and hence from the past and that there might be something new in it: so he ‘chases’ it to see where it takes him. The scientist would do the same thing. And the artist studio, like a scientific lab: both a self contained mini universe and they both work in silence.