The Matter of Vision. Peter Wyeth
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laughing man
The sad baby
The sinister man
The sad baby
The syllogism looking/looked at/reaction figure
ignites the narrative movement
Add to this sound and
a character never says what s/he means
Dialogue is a game of chess
Not a telling of the story.
Bogart tells Ingrid he hates her
But we know he loves her.
Cinema!
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Film Theory
The eye evolved to track motion
We follow motion because of survival
Emotion arises from survival
The arc of a film
is the trace of Emotion
The brain follows Emotion
as the eye follows motion
(Neither are conscious)
We cannot avoid empathy
(Neither is that conscious)
The body/brain shadows the hero
we go through what s/he goes through
(Shared Circuits)
The brain connects diverse stimuli
to survive.
It is not a question of reality
but of representation.
The least unlikely explanation
for the co-presence of the various stimuli.
A story
is making the best of what we see.
Narrative is the native mode of the brain.
The Classic Hollywood Cinema
created a perfect engine of meaning
The Ideal Narrative
Each scene changes
the emotional status of the hero
Cinema is change
as life is change
The ideal script
has one change after another
scene after scene
Marnie.
From Culture to nature
reverse-engineering Cinema
Cultural evolution
(after Darwin)
from nature to culture
A science of culture
The Logic of Nature
The logic of culture
Cinema
51Karl Kraus, Werke, Vol III, p. 161.
52The emphasis is on modern societies
53It is an important distinction that it is not LCR themselves, but their ‘ideologies’ that are the issue.
54All the (externally oriented) functions of the brain are movements (of blood, electrical synaptic connections etc), that are the substance, as it were, of Emotion.
55in the sense of created through evolution.
56Emotion is an effect whose cause is the external world, external to the body, a response to the threat of a predator – or the opportunity to be that predator.
57A useful distinction between the Automatic and the non-conscious could be with the autonomic nervous system as the latter – perhaps internal regulation v external orientation as a boundary, with the Automatic more externally-oriented.
58The area outside consciousness is the major part of the brain. Consciousness is the minor part, an effect of the major part.
59The raw figures are from Information Science in the 1950s. For caveats, see Consciousness in Commentaries.
60Vision responds quickly to threats and opportunities - which create emotional responses.
61We have only representations in our brains, as against the idea of a real world that we can perceive as a whole.
62Joyce’s famous phrase, followed by the less-known follow-up, which might be interpreted as thought occurs in Vision.
63Damasio, The Feeling of What Happens, Vintage, New York, 2000. p.188.
64Language, in common with everything human, evolved only for survival. Sound as survival alarm, as with Vision, suggests that concern over the sighting of a possible predator would use the help of sound over distance to warn others.
65Of the LCR trio, Consciousness is particularly about its image rather than its reality, see Commentaries discussion.
66Consciousness is suggested here as an epiphenomen of brain function, rather than strictly a causal agent in itself. Part of a chain of causation and therefore with a causal role, but a contingent rather than autonomous one.
67Although this is my view, I have had conversations with well-known neuroscientists who I was surprised to find took the same view.
68I tend to this view, although the interconnectedness of the pair makes it a difficult call.
69That is an effect of the operations of the brain.
70Again this is suggesting that the role of consciousness is less active than we assume, more on the receiving end.
71That is to say the brain creates Emotion as a sign of a survival-threat contained in information perceived.
72The notion here is that the brain utilises the resources of consciousness for the primary aim of avoiding threats to survival.
73Dietrich Trinker, Aufhahme, Speicherung und Verarbeitung von Information durch den Menschen, Veroffentlchungen der Schleswig-Holsteinischen Universitatsgesellschaft, Neu Foge, nr 44 (Kiel: Verlag Ferdinand Hort,