The Remarkably Difficult Psychology of Creative Visualisation

One hundred years ago this week the war poet David Jones was wounded on the Somme. Unlike other war poets it took over 20 years for the horrors he had witnessed to work their way out into his writing. This workshop examines the cognitive processes involved (a) when poets re-render past visual experience as words, and (b) when readers of those words reconstruct the original emotions for themselves. The workshop tasks will thoroughly explore the mind's "semantic interlingua", that is to say, the as-yet-unbroken deep-mind code into which all incoming, and out of which all outgoing, communications have to be translated. The tasks therefore promise practical benefits to participants wishing to ground their visualisation practicum more effectively in the sciences of mind. Factsheets and suggestions for follow-up reading will be provided.

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Derek J. Smith

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Publication date: July 2016

Publication date (Print): July 2016

Pages: 277-278

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[0001]Cardiff Metropolitan University (Ret’d)

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DOI: 10.14236/ewic/EVA2016.54

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Conference name: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts

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Conference location: London, UK

Conference date: 12 - 14 July 2016

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts

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1477-9358 BCS Learning & Development

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D. C. Dennett 1978 Brainstorms. Penguin London
D. Jones 1937 In Parenthesis. Faber and Faber London
D. J. Smith 2009 A computer simulation of Meinong’s (1902 Objektiv stage of object perception History and Philosophy of Psychology 11 1 37 43
D. J. Smith 2013 Artificial Consciousness CA World 2013 Las Vegas, USA
D. J. Smith 2014 Trench Gothic: The Computer Visualisation of a Disturbing Great War Artwork. EVA 2014 9th July BCS London, UK

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[1] D. C. Dennett 1978 Brainstorms. Penguin London

[2] D. Jones 1937 In Parenthesis. Faber and Faber London

[3] D. J. Smith 2009 A computer simulation of Meinong’s (1902 Objektiv stage of object perception History and Philosophy of Psychology 11 1 37 43

[4] D. J. Smith 2013 Artificial Consciousness CA World 2013 Las Vegas, USA

[5] D. J. Smith 2014 Trench Gothic: The Computer Visualisation of a Disturbing Great War Artwork. EVA 2014 9th July BCS London, UK

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