Episode #58: Cognition, Humans, Animals, and Art: Participant Elaine Angelopoulos with Resident Philosopher Nicholas Whittaker @Bryant Park

Timestamps:00:35: Elaine and Nicholas tackle the definition of Art as Cognition via first impressions. "Your immediate impulse in response to a blank page, without thinking."01:30: We're in a virtual world, but we still make motions perpetually all in the idea of virtual cognition03:19: Aesthetic Cognition almost implies a design of inherited gestures and movements that were already instructed. 05:05: The standard definition of cognition: Brain activity07:00: Art as Cognition applies to embodied artistic movements. Unconscious, immediate, gut participations in art. 08:50: A right to aesthetic cognition. Abusing privilege. We don't talk about animals in aesthetic cognition. We talk about it on the base of human behavior11:45: Inherently human focus on art. Human beings have the power of reason, or at least that's what we've historically stressed. But hang on...13:00: When we limit cognition, we limit the idea that animals can feel. Richly felt experiences. They feel fear, hunger, joy, so why don't we give those feelings due credit?Support the showWebsite: talkpopc.orgInstagram: @talkpopcEmail: [email protected]