{"id":691,"date":"2014-10-20T09:14:53","date_gmt":"2014-10-20T16:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.evergreen.edu\/grahamakingportfolio\/?p=17"},"modified":"2014-10-20T11:06:36","modified_gmt":"2014-10-20T18:06:36","slug":"cst-post-week-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/making\/cst-post-week-3\/","title":{"rendered":"CST post week 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAccording to Wegner, it is instead the potter\u2019s brain that has the reasons, in the form of a \u2018readiness potential\u2019 (RP), at least 350 milliseconds before the potter\u2019s conscious awareness of the wish to act.\u201d Malafouris 220<\/p>\n<p>Does a RP precede every conscious action? Is this why artists and creators let their work flow through them instead of imposing themselves onto the work?\u00a0 If the conscious mind was involved in every action would this be too slow?\u00a0 Perhaps this is a place to contrast humans and animals.\u00a0 Are animals able to react quicker than humans to stimuli because they don\u2019t have to bounce a thought off their conscious awareness before they act?\u00a0 \u00a0We are forced to funnel our thoughts through an \u201cego filter\u201d before we are able to make any sort of action, serving to alienate us from our environment and a common reference of time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&ldquo;According to Wegner, it is instead the potter&rsquo;s brain that has the reasons, in the form of a &lsquo;readiness potential&rsquo; (RP), at least 350 milliseconds before the potter&rsquo;s conscious awareness of the wish to act.&rdquo; Malafouris 220 Does a RP precede every conscious action? Is this why artists and creators let their work flow through [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":338,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/making\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/making\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/making\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/making\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/338"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/making\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/making\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/making\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/making\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/making\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}