The Matter of Vision. Peter Wyeth
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is inferior to the Visual
Culture protests the opposite.
Consciousness is a tiny part of brain activity.
Man’s ego cannot believe that to be the case.
Reason needs Emotion.
Emotion does not need Reason.
Reason is unthroned.
Language, Consciousness and Reason
as we presently conceive of them
conceal rather than reveal
the truth.
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Vision
Knowledge is Vision
Show not tell
Knowledge is Vision
All true knowledge resides in Vision
and in Vision alone.
What we cannot see we cannot fully know
Vision can exist without Consciousness
The eye sees more than Consciousness knows
We see more than we know
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Thought
Vision is the medium of thought
Thought is produced in images
Thought is not produced in Language
Thought does not originate in Language
Thought is translated into Language
Thought exceeds Language
as
Vision exceeds Language
Poetry aspires to the condition of Vision
Language is specific to man
But man existed without Language
(And perhaps will so again)
Vision is not specific to man
But man cannot exist without Vision
Vision sees everything
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Emotion
Man’s attention is captured only by Emotion.
Man grants significance only to what arouses Emotion.
Emotion is the dimension of survival.
The survival instinct is a continuum
from life or death, love or hate, to like or dislike . . .
The raw material of the brain is Emotion.
Emotion ignites the brain, sets it in motion.
Motion/Emotion.
The brain and the body are set in motion only by Emotion.
The brain and the body respond to threats to survival, near or far, with Emotion.
Without Emotion man’s interest quickly wanes.
Emotion is the motor of fascination, the engine of interest.
For Spinoza, mind and body are one.
Against Descartes, who has them (mainly) distinct.
Man is a system that integrates mind and body
through the fuel of Emotion.
Their common element is survival.
Survival is Emotion.
The narratives of meaning in the mind are wordless.
They are images, visual mainly, but not solely.
Sound comes next, and some distance beyond
taste and feel.
Wordless storytelling is natural
Language is not necessary for the self75.
The self is pre-language, composed
of images,
memory, reason.
Language is not required.
Objects of attention become subjects through the magnet of Emotion.
Without Emotion man does not pause but passes on.
From all possible object of attention
Man selects only those with affect (with Emotion)
Objects without Emotion are without meaning.
Meaning and Emotion are one.
Meaning is Emotion
Without emotion we don’t care
the emotion-engine is not engaged.
Care is subjective.
We care about what has engaged our Emotions.
Emotion is life in motion.
Motion is the founding moment of Life.
Life seeks survival.
Emotion is the reflection of that desire.
We care about things only insofar as they are related to survival.
Disinterested caring does not exist.
Selflessness is selfish as mutual interest aids survival.
Altruism has evolutionary purpose.
We are altruistic only better to survive.
Morality cannot be superimposed on evolution
nor extracted from evolution.
Evolution is disinterested.
It is.
Emotion is the engine of life76.
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The Automatic
Consciousness handles ten bits per second77 The brain absorbs eleven million
Eleven million minus ten
with no word of its own.
Conscious and unconscious
ten v eleven million.
Un-conscious not just not conscious
but automatic all the time.
Automatic.
We are not aware of it.
Without our knowing
a billion tasks a second.
The Automatic.
If most of a film enters the brain
outside consciousness
enters the Automatic.
Then
Cinema a treasure-trove
of the Automatic.
experimental design
untangles
Conscious from Automatic
a priority for
Affective Neurobiology & Cinema
III. Cinema
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Cinema is nature
Cinema is a matter of Vision
Vision is a matter of Emotion
Emotion is a matter of survival
Survival is a matter of nature
Nature becomes Culture in cinema
Cinema