[-empyre-] Luigi's greetings!

["Luigi Pagliarini" <luigi@artificialia.com>]

Hello everymind.. pardon, body!

> We are living in a historical moment in constant change and 
> acceleration. Social structures more and more require from us
> more complex and faster adaptation abilities. How can the field
> of art and science evolve on this context? How can we help to
> evolve human consciousness?

Art and Science? Evolution? Adaptation abilities? Human Consciousness?
"Art and Cognition" is, somehow, an incorrect starting point. I would much
prefer "Art is Cognition" or, better, "Art is Mind". Indeed, there is no
reason why we shouldn't see how art has largely contributed - as well as
other disciplines, like science philosophy and etc. - to the human being
progress. Art moving from the mind - therefore also that part of the mind
that we call cognition or the one we call consciousness or awareness -
develops artefacts that contributes to generate the evolution of thinking,
acting and feeling. In other words, art is a perfectly integrated part in
the evolutionary process of the human race and, occasionally, even leads it.
These statements - which I've been following, believing and applying in my
research in art (as well as in science) for the last fifteen years - is
becoming more and more understandable and believable, as the knowledge we
have of our bodies and minds gets more and more profound and sophisticated.
And, besides that, I'm quite confident that we are only at the beginning of
it. In fact, I believe that as technology will increasingly exploit its
potentials it will consequentially permeate our lives and our minds deeper
and deeper, letting us gradually increasing the awareness and the control of
our highest (or lowest, if you want) level of perception and
self-perception. This, in turn, will give the human being a much wider range
of so called "inputs", either under a cognitive and/or an emotional
perspective. And to our "old", "ancient" brain it won't be that easy to find
its way in the new scenarios. Well... I believe that art, in this process,
is an important lighthouse, without which it might be much harder to get
home, so to speak.

Luigi Pagliarini (copyleft)