Philosophy:Neuroarts
As an international transdisciplinary philosophical movement, Neuroarts was founded in the last decade of the 20th century by Belgian philosopher and writer Luc Delannoy.
Neuroarts is built through an international network of philosophers, artists, health professionals, mental health specialists, biologists, neuroscientists, and physicists from different countries who contribute to the development of the theoretical and practical framework of the movement.
The field of research in Neuroarts is art and its links to the mind and different aspects of consciousness. It also studies the structures of perception and aesthetic experience. Various disciplines have engaged with Neuroarts: quantum physics, hermeneutics, epistemology, health sciences[1], and educational sciences. The concept has been adopted and developed in several countries.
Neuroarts is a proposal about the generation, propulsion and articulation of knowledge, encompassing perception, imagination, empathy, creativity and reasoning; all of these are neuroepistemic or universal neurocognitive processes, characteristic of brain morphology.
It began with a series of philosophical and scientific observations and questions about perception and consciousness; today it involves the development of research on the human brain, its evolution, its structure, and its functions; and it proposes an approach to understanding the mind and human consciousness. [2]
The transdisciplinary nature of Neuroarts invites reflection on the issue of reductionism and, in fact, allows to reject an absolute reductionism that seeks to explain a phenomenon based on its simplest, smallest elements. Reductionism as a methodology aims to study the constituent parts of a system in order to understand it. A fundamentalist (metaphysical) reductionism is a statement about the nature of matter—or of the subject being studied—; it aims to understand a system by understanding the properties of its constituent parts. Neuroarts proposes understanding the object or objects of study as complex and dynamic organizations. The scientist Carl Woese said that knowing the parts of isolated systems is not enough, adding that one can decipher the notes of a musical score without necessarily hearing the music.
The Neuroarts network extends across different countries in Latin America (Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Cuba, Nicaragua, Mexico) and Europe (Estonia, Ukraine, Belgium and Spain).
Founder
Luc Delannoy (n. Brussels) is a Belgian philosopher, sinologist, and writer. His research focuses on the study of the mind and human consciousness, as well as the relationship between art and mental health. [3]
Since 2002, he has been investigating quantum coherence and its epistemological implications. He has been a visiting professor at several universities in the Americas. After being a visiting professor at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, he founded the Institute of Neuroarts in 2003, and the Center for Research in Neuroaesthetics and Neuromusicology (CINNe) in Mexico.
Since 2015, he has been a visiting professor at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Valparaíso, Chile, and contributes to the launch and implementation of mental health programs based on the principles of Neuroarts.
His influences include the Yogacara philosophical school and quantum theories of Hugh Everett III, Michael B. Mensky, John Conway, Simón Kochen, Alexander Holevo <and the teachings of the English philosopher Edmond Wright. In quantum mechanics, he specializes no-go theorems and quantum coherence. The influence of the French philosopher Henri Bergson is also noticeable and from various branches of Neo-Confucianism Liang Shu-Ming, Tang Junyi and Mou Zongsan. He is a member of Quantum Flagship.
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