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In his new book, Strange Tools: Art and Human Nature, the philosopher and cognitive scientist Alva Noë raises a number of profound questions: What is art? Why do we value art as we do? What does art reveal about our nature? Drawing on philosophy, art history, and cognitive science, and making provocative use of examples from all three of these fields, Noë offers new answers to such questions. He also shows why recent efforts to frame questions about art in terms of neuroscience and evolutionary biology alone have been and will continue to be unsuccessful.
Alva Noë: “Strange Tools: Art and Human Nature” | Talks at Google
My favorite point from Mr. Noe is that both Philosophy and Art are Re-organizational Practices (to help us make sense of our world?). And that disagreements are no problems for Philosophers and Artists: "Art does not converge on a single Artistic Idea". One more great quote from the beginning of his talk: "Boredom is a stage through which you must go to make discovery." Very enlightening talk, even if it was a bit dry. Great payoff in understanding for me.