Illogic Gate

a pencil drawing that looks like a machine about cognitive processing

HB and 2B Pencil drawing on Arches hot pressed watercolour paper. 2020 24 x 34cm

Personal collection of the artist

Based on electronic models of cognition. This image is partnered with Neural I

We do not understand how cognitive processes lead to emergent properties of seeing and thinking. There are many models that scientists use to try to research how our brains work but the complexity is overwhelming and we are nowhere near fully understanding how the stuff of brains, neurons, glia and the vascular system leads to our exprience of the world around us.

Electronic models may be easy to measure but logic fails when faced with a chaotic system, straight lines lead nowhere.


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