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Painting the Mind

I watched this program called Painting the Mind the other day. Here is the description:

"When builder Tommy McHugh and chiropractor Jon Sarkin suffered massive brain traumas, they suddenly revealed a previously hidden talent: to create art that amazed critics and collectors."

I found it fascinating as I have studied quite a bit of philosophy, psychology and a little neurology over the past year relating to mind, brains and consciousness. Now I am wholeheartedly an idealist specifically a panpsychist. Einstien with his funky E = mc2 equation (energy equals mass multiplied by the speed of light squared) showed mass is just a highly condensed form energy. Now our current understanding of the manifestations of energy is limited, my comprehension is that consciousness and matter are made of the same stuff. Now although this fundamental essence, personified through time into a soul or an afterlife does live on, in a way which is a hundred times more complicated and a thousand times more simple than we have made it to be, you as an individual do not.

This program is an incredible insight into the functioning of the brain and the fragility of higher consciousness. The questions raised are thought provoking, I can't even imagine just going for a number two, popping a vein and then being a different person.

It also covers some of the left/right issues which are prominent discussions relating to creativity and what separates some of the geniuses of the past apart from everyone else.

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