by Jean-Pierre Changeux · JACOB · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782738102447
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«Raison et plaisir» is the essay by Jean-Pierre Changeux, published by Odile Jacob in paperback (220 pages, in French).
Jean-Pierre Changeux examines the brain processes at work during artistic creation and the contemplation of a work, and reflects on the origin of aesthetic pleasure. Drawing on neuroscience and cognitive psychology, the author proposes a journey through unusual works of French and foreign art.
The work, originally published in 1994, includes bibliographic references (pages 209-220).
For readers interested in the relationship between art, science and philosophy, and in how the brain processes aesthetic experience.
Jean-Pierre Changeux is a French neuroscientist known for his research in several fields of biology, from the structure and function of proteins, to the early development of the nervous system up to cognitive functions. Although being famous in biological sciences for the MWC model, the identification and purification of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor, the theory of epigenesis by synapse selection and the global neuronal workspace theory for conscious processing are also notable scientific achievements. Changeux is known by the non-scientific public for his ideas regarding the connection between mind and physical brain. As put forth in his book, Conversations on Mind, Matter and Mathematics, Changeux strongly supports the view that the nervous system functions in a projective rather than reactive style and that interaction with the environment, rather than being instructive, results in the selection amongst a diversity of preexisting internal representations.
