The Matter of Vision. Peter Wyeth
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target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="#ulink_ee1160d2-c6a0-5b8a-91d6-ba3d8fc87f88">42See Martin Jay, Downcast Eyes – The Denigration of Vision in Twentieth Century French Thought, op. cit.
43See section on Emotion (p. 17) for an operational definition from Joseph LeDoux. Since this section was written I read Stanislas Dehaene on Consciousness, and he applies a similar philosophy to the treatment of subjective reports as raw data which, together with the approach of Dream-Science to dreams creates a triple confirmation of this revolution in scientific method.
44Quoted in Downcast Eyes, Martin Jay. op. cit.
45Richard Dawkins’ comment on Lacan’s discussion of science: ‘the author of this stuff is a fake’, in a review of Alan Sokal, Jean Bricmont (1988) Intellectual Impostures, London, Profile Books.
46If that isn’t false-memory syndrome it was a wry comment on a social occasion rather than a public pronouncement.
47For those born blind, again it is suggested that the brain provides alternative circuits for the processing of Vision which the sighted also possess but become relied upon exclusively by those without sight.
48The sense intended here is that evolution has developed the brain’s functions and thus those functions are always the product of evolutionary pressures.
49See Commentaries section on ‘Art & Science’ p. 127 for discussion of these developments that help to suggest the depth of analysis ANB can bring to an understanding of Cinema.
50Intelligent in the sense of providing more and better-quality analytical information.
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The Matter of Vision: Aphorisms
This section is composed of aphorisms as a stimulus to thought – in vision of course. There are rhythms that will require perseverance. They may be more like shots than words, a poor sort of film that you can improve. ‘The aphorism never covers itself with truth, it is either half-true, or one-and-a-half-times true.’51
I. Propositions
i
The history of hitherto existing societies52 has been the prisoner of three stern gaolers Language, Consciousness and Reason.
The imprisoned are
Vision, the Automatic and Emotion.
Language
confines
Vision
Consciousness
effaces
The Automatic
Reason
corrals
Emotion53
ii
Emotion
Emotion is the key
The brain is Emotion
Emotion is the brain54.
Emotion ignites the brain.
Emotion fuels the brain.
Emotion is the motor of the brain.
The brain works through Emotion
Emotion is the raw-material of the brain
The brain thinks Emotionally.
Emotion is the function of the brain
Emotion is the reason the brain exists55 Emotion is the reason the brain adapts.
Emotion is the matter of life and death
Emotion is the motor of evolution
Emotion is the motor of survival.
Emotion is survival
The source of Emotion is survival
survival is Evolution56
Emotion is nature
Emotion is not Reasonable
Emotion has its Reasons
The Logic of Emotion
Is the Logic of Nature
The Logic of Nature is Emotion
Emotion without Reason
No Reason without Emotion
Emotion within scientific method
a revolution
iii
The Automatic
The Automatic is what is not Conscious
The Automatic is the un-conscious57
The Automatic is outside the Conscious
The Conscious is a pin in the Albert Hall
The Automatic is the Albert Hall
The Automatic merits its own term
The Automatic is a positive
(un-conscious is a negative)
The Automatic is the brain58 The brain is the Automatic
The Automatic is three hundred million billion connections
The Automatic is eleven million bits per second
(The Conscious is ten bits per second59)
iv
Vision
Vision is the noblest of the senses
Vision is the prime sense
(Language is translation)
Vision is Automatic
(Consciousness is Non-Automatic)
Vision is Emotion60
(No Reason without Emotion)
The Tragedy of Vision
is that we take it for granted
What we know of the World comes from Vision
The world we see
Is the only world we know61
Vision sees everything
iv (a)
Vision and Language
Vision is the major sense
(Ten million bits per second)
Language is the minor sense
(Ten bits per second)
The brain operates through Vision not Language
Vision sees more
Vision sees better
Vision sees faster
Vision sees further
Our wisdom
Is the wisdom of Vision
The Matter of Vision is Emotion