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Baroque Brain: Science and Humanities in Interaction

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The paper discusses current neurophysiological approach to higher cognitive functions and shows its fundamental errors. It illustrates how important philosophical forethought is for interdisciplinary research  of brain processes and mind mechanisms. Joint efforts of various  sciences provide qualitatively new knowledge. Brain and mind should be studied through interconnecting natural sciences, arts, and humanities. Cognitive sciences will never reach radically new results without looking at the problem from a different perspective—in the context of various products of human genius. Human mind is not a Turing’s machine, and its principles are not based on stimulus-reaction scheme. Rather, it demonstrates the principles of the Baroque: it highlights faces and objects, revealing specific and unusual features, it is not linear and stable. The brain is not just processing information—it creates information.

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The study was supported by the research grant no. ID 75288744 “Text processing in L1 and L2: Experimental study with eye-tracking, visual analytics and virtual reality technologies” from St Petersburg University.

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Chernigovskaya, T. (2021). Baroque Brain: Science and Humanities in Interaction. In: Chernigovskaya, T., Eismont, P., Petrova, T. (eds) Language, Music and Gesture: Informational Crossroads. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-3742-1_1

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