Semir Zeki - Aesthetic Cognitivism II: Intellectual Foundations

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Aesthetic Cognitivism is a theory about the arts as sources of understanding. What are the scholarly or scientific fields that form its foundation? Explore art’s relationship with cognitive science, philosophy, neuroscience, history, theology and religion.

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Semir Zeki is a British neurobiologist who specializes in studying the primate visual brain and the neural correlates of affective states, such as the experience of love, desire, and beauty that are generated by sensory inputs within the field of neuroesthetics.

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