The Cognitive Underpinnings of the Denial to Act
Symposium:
- ISEA2012: 18th International Symposium on Electronic Art
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Session Title:
- Synaptic Scenarios for Ecological Environments
Presentation Title:
- The Cognitive Underpinnings of the Denial to Act
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Panel: Synaptic Scenarios for Ecological Environments
The biological and cognitive sciences offer compelling explanations of human behavior, which shows that human beings do not always act in their own interests. Public denial to be pro-active in relation to CO2 emission is one example. This talk will address the failure to act or even attend to what is essential for human survival and how artists have devised works that help spectators become aware of this level of attention failure and how this failure might affect our reactions to environmental complexity.
