Your Brain on Art

The arts are not a luxury or an escape, but a vital tool for thriving physically, mentally, and spiritually. Neuroscience explains how art changes the body, brain, and behavior and practitioners are demonstrating its role in advancing health and wellbeing. Learn about the cutting-edge field of neuroarts from the authors of the New York Times bestseller, Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us. Moderated by Walter Isaacson, Susan Magsamen and Ivy Ross are joined onstage by legendary jazz musician Fred Johnson to bring home the transformative power of art.

This conversation was a part of Aspen Ideas: Health 2023. 

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Asking questions. The opposite of school! We are encouraged to answer someone else's questions and get interested in what they want to stuff in our heads and conform our thinking to "fact checkers". Kinda shocked Susan was from John Hopkins.

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51 the author talks about how many nerve endings a human has in his hand. How many does a an AI have. How will aids build community? How will you teach them to be more human through art? I tutor was interesting how there was this short blurb about how AI is rational (I think that means "garbage in garbage out"). The the one with the most soul and art on the whole panel was saved by spending his time outside the classroom talking to others. Conversation! Something frowned on in the school system. Something frowned upon where they tell you what to think. Pressure on all sides indeed! To form the human that top down needs to control.