This week's topics of biotechnology and neuroscience in association with art has opened up my eyes to relationships of these two cultures that I have never noticed before! After reading "meanings of participation: Outlaw Biology?", I learned that the vast amount of research and discovery that medical technologies have provided for our society is what lead to the abundant amounts of art that we find in books. As the article points out, medical technologies have made it possible for researchers to observe many patterns in genomic sequences, which have lead to a better and clearer understanding of genetics. This has lead to a creation in many other forms of researching genetics, which could be seen as artistic creations because people have come up with different forms of mapping out sequences, which gives alternatives in visualizing research, allowing people to learn in different ways. Thanks to the advances in research made today, I have been fortunate as a student to have access to books made with art that helps me understand chemistry, biology, and many other subjects.
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| http://mimpeen.blog-2010.com/The-first-blog-b1/Molecular-Cell-Biology-read-online-b1-p4.htm |
 This photo of patterns seen in prostate cancer is made possible through medical technologies. |
| http://ajcp.ascpjournals.org/content/136/1/98/F1.expansion.html
Professor Vesna's lecture on the topic of neuroscience and art brought up an interesting question, which was whether the advances in medical technologies have helped "expand our consciousness", or whether it is turning us, in a sense, into the machines by taking away or ability to think for ourselves and do the thinking for us. I personally think that technology is potentially harming our abilities to think for ourselves because it is giving people the option of throwing critical thinking and analysis out of the window to depend on technology to get the work done for them.
This video is great evidence as to how technologies can take away from the advantages of the neuroscience in humans. This can be applied to medical technologies specifically, because with more artistic developments that are created in order to understand sciences and mathematics comes more independence humans become on their short term memory, an idea explored in the video. Humans are able to access answers to what is unknown to them without having to contemplate on what they learn and thus without having to work their short term memory. This results in humans not being able to learn something with complete understanding, something that is bad because our brains are not making the most of use the neuroscience in our systems that allows us to become more intelligent.
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