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How the Brain Creates Art and Dreams

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Evolution consists of preserving and passing on information. Beyond genetics thinking evolved, a way to understand the environment to survive in it. On its constant path to higher levels of abstraction, the psyche generated language as a tool to transmit and store information. Thus, language follows the rules of the psyche which is constantly active in constructing an image of the world. As a part of this constructive process art evolved. Art is created by an individual psyche based on its previously stored information merging with the culture the artist lives in.

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  1. Facharzt für Psychiatrie, Psychotherapie, Pyschoanalyse, Wien, Austria

    Hans-Otto Thomashoff

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    Afzal Javed

  2. Division of Neuroscience Medicine, Aristotle University, Division of Neuroscience Medicine, Thessaloniki, Greece

    Kostas N. Fountoulakis

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Thomashoff, HO. (2019). How the Brain Creates Art and Dreams. In: Javed, A., Fountoulakis, K. (eds) Advances in Psychiatry. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70554-5_4

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