Our first, April meeting took place today with Hiroyuki Akama's great talk. Well known as a historian of ideas (particularly that of psychoanalysis), he is one of the most brilliant persons I've met. Today he talked about the fusion of science and humanities from many different aspects. Taking the famous "golden section" and its relationship with the general mechanism of the metaphor, he proceeded to explain the antagonistic positions of "embodiment theory" and "amodal theory," finishing with a nice presentation of "mirror neuron." It was very enjoyable.
From our program, art historian Shino Kuraishi and computer scientist-media artist Homei Miyashita were there, as well as Beckettian Yoshiyuki Inoue who teaches English at Meiji. We also had four students and we are hoping they will enter our program next year.
Let's face it. There is no separation between nature and art, nor between science and art!
