Currently, there is an ongoing fad in neurology which involves focusing on how the brain processes music. This fad was strongly reiterated with the release of Oliver Sacks’ Musicophilia, which once again allowed Sacks to triumph the bridge between non-expert and expert readers and achieve widespread literary recognition. With my studies, one of my goals is to lead neuroscientific studies to a new frontier, exploring the effect of the film medium on the brain and defining film as a function of consciousness. I think that film is the most encompassing medium to represent the whole of what the mind is doing, whereas music or visual art singularly represent only isolated aspects of the ways in which the mind remembers, imagines, and processes external events. Also, I think that the ways in which film represent consciousness (such faded out scenes for memories, or the subvocal voice monologue in voice-overs) are affecting the way people reflect upon their own consciousness, which is a critical aspect of self-awareness. All of the aforementioned topics and ideas need to be understood through more research, and I have elected myself to be the pioneer of this research. I think that in a world dominated by technology and perhaps approaching the singularity, it is imperative to study the effects of these technologies on consciousness and on the subjective experience of the individual.
