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Two Ways to Dream

Surrealism

Videos

• Pink Floyd's The Wall
• Salad Fingers
• Realness

Writings

• Breton's Manifesto of Surrealism
• Suppressing the reasoning part of the brain stimulates creativity, scientists find [article]
  • "When the [dorsolateral prefrontal cortex] was ‘cooled down’, the brain seems to have stopped applying old rules [learned from experience], and been more successful at finding new rules – this is the essence of creativity in problem-solving"

Games

• Irrational Character of Objects

Romanticism

Quiz

• Take the Romanticism Quiz.

Videos

• Byronic (Romantic) Hero 1

Writings

• What Can the Romantics Teach Us About Confronting Modern Problems?
• A Sexy New Theory of Consciousness Gets All Up in Your Feelings
• Romantic Poetry

Assignments

What Would Current Researchers of Cognition think of the Eras

(100 points)

Creativity, thinking, and the heavy weight of ongoing realms of thought

1. Read this article on Social Rigidity and Cognitive Rigidity
2. Read/review this table of the Neoclassical, the Romantic, and the Victorian worldviews.
3. Write a three paragraph paper (roughly 600-750 words total)
   • Paragraph 1: select a numbered row in the table, then discuss what you think the researchers of that article would have to say about that ideal in each those three worldviews.
   • Paragraph 2: select a different numbered row in the table, then discuss what you think the researchers of that article would have to say about that ideal in each those three worldviews.
   • Paragraph 2: select a third numbered row in the table, then discuss what you think the researchers of that article would have to say about that ideal in each those three worldviews.
   • Using the table, select a worldview (a numbered row).

• Example
• If you choose row 1, then write about how the Researchers think that Neoclassical ideal of "Idealize how to make the experience perfect" would influence cognition (would that ideal make thinking more or less rigid). Continue on with that row to discuss how the Researchers would think of the Romantic ideal of "Idealize the perfect love or experience last" (If that ideal would cause more or less rigid thinking), and then discuss how the Researchers would think of the Victorian "Idealize the perfect love or experience first" as influencing rigid thinking.

Comparing Worldviews

(50 points)

1. Keep your scores from the worldview Quiz
2. Have a person who is close to you take the Worldview quiz, answering for themselves.
   • They will need to have not just the results but their actual ticked answers. (they need to screenshot everything)
3. Isolate at least 5 (FIVE) of the quiz questions where you answered differently.
4. In the paper discuss those specific differences (use numbers of the rows for clarificatin). Then, discuss a real world situation that could arise (or has already happened) between you two and how conflict could, or did, occur because of those two different worldviews.