Res-qualia: Could consciousness evolve?
Raquel Paricio Garcia
Technoetic Arts 2007 DOI: 10.1386/tear.5.1.35_1 (opens in new tab)
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AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Theoretical or philosophical paper Peer reviewed |
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| Key points | Argues that consciousness involves an immaterial or energetic element that humans may be able to manipulate much as artists now manipulate living tissue, and proposes that research into consciousness could redirect art-science and, through a planetary culture, global consciousness. The author also contends that representational space, not perceptual space, is where consciousness processes take place. |
Abstract
The article is an approach to the possibilities of the evolution of consciousness. The research will be presented from the point of view of the Art and Mystic experiences and also compared with the biological point of view.The differences between the perception space and the representation space will be described, since it is considered that the later represents the location where the conscience processes take place. An example in the contemporary architecture on the representation space (the Jean Nouvel's Agbar Tower) will be analysed. The contemporary artistic practices on living tissue manipulation will also be reviewed: artists inspired by the evolutionary laws are working nowadays with the manipulation of living tissues as artistic objects. This could be a controversial phenomenon that may drive the art-science to a materialistic position. It is for this reason that the work with consciousness could prove that the immaterial or energy is a real element that humans can manipulate as they do with living tissues. To know how to do it would be the research in art for this century and could change the direction in art-science, could change the direction of the global consciousness through a planetary culture.