"In Proust Was a Neuroscientist, Jonah Lehrer compellingly argues that artists anticipated the discoveries of modern neuroscience. It was Proust who first revealed the fallibility of memory; George Eliot who discovered the brain's malleability. Walt Whitman, Auguste Escoffier, Paul Cezanne, Igor Stravinsky, Gertrude Stein, and Virginia Woolf similarly mined the brain to reveal the fifth taste sensation (Escoffier) and expose the deep structure of language (Stein), among other things that science is only now beginning to measure and confirm. In its review of Proust, The Washington Post writes that "Jonah Lehrer's smart, elegantly written little book expresses an appealing faith that art and science offer different but complementary views of the world." In further studies of how the right-brain and the left-brain overlap, This Is Your Brain on Music reveals how composers exploit the way our brains work to produce pleasurable sounds and Musicophilia offers up the calming effects music has on people whose memories have been ravaged by Alzheimer's. Tomes on creativity from modern artists, like filmmaker David Lynch's Catching the Big Fish and Julia Cameron's The Artist's Way, also provide inspiration that meditation and other mystical elements of art will reveal more secrets of the brain. There are endless possibilities of the new mysteries that artists will uncover...and it'll be fascinating to observe them being unraveled."
Artists, Authors, Singers, DJs, etc... (artists) have been brainwashing us all of our lives, whether they know it or not. I find it kinda funny that many "elite" intelectuals claim that the Bible is a bunch of stories meant to brainwash us, but at the same time, they practically worship those modern stories that envoke feelings of violence, revenge, hatred, where the Bible (if you understand the entire context) only invokes feelings of love and forgiveness, even self-forgiveness. Do we really need Psychologists, or do we just need to be careful what art we let into our minds? The Bible actually talks about this, but that's a whole other subject, so i'll shut up. I'm just trying to invoke thought (not even debate because I don't have time to comment back). Not trying to be confrontational, but I'm sure it'll come across that way. Oh well Edit: I just realized this is in the Entertainment section, and I REALLY don't want to start a religious debate, so I'll just add: I think it's funny that so many people hate spam so much (myself included), but in fact, spam is one of the least passive ways of brain programming... it's usually fairly direct that they just want you to buy something. I'm just rambling though. Always studied neurology in my spare time and discounted all the passive things that actually create some neurological disorders, so this is a new fascinating area for me to explore.