isomorphica
The Isomorphica cycle is based in large part on the Human Behavioral Biology lectures by Robert Sapolsky. The 25 lectures can be found on Stanford's youtube.com channel.
Click on the titles to see references that inspired and directed the development of the paintings.
22.5" x 44" acrylic on canvas
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Transcription factors, part of the mechanism by which heritable information in genes becomes functional → simple.wikipedia.org ↑
A visualisation of transcription (video, narration) → youtube.com ↑
53" x 86" acrylic on canvas
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Action-potential in the neuron (video, narration) → youtube.com
59" x 36.5" acrylic on canvas
59" x 36.5" acrylic on canvas
59" x 36.5" acrylic on canvas
59" x 36.5" acrylic on canvas
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Resting potential in the neuron (video, narration, transcript) → khanacademy.org
86" x 53" acrylic on canvas
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The traveling salesman problem and the nearest neighbor algorithm → wikipedia.org ↑
22.5" x 44" acrylic on canvas
59." x 36.5" acrylic on canvas
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On entropy in the brain → plos.org
The Boltzmann Brain, a thought experiment → wikipedia.org
59" x 36.5" acrylic on canvas
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A theory to explain neural mechanisms of recollection, Antonio Damasio's convergence-divergence zones → wikipedia.org ↑
36.5" x 59" acrylic on canvas
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The neuroscience of free will → wikipedia.org
From explaining freedom away to measuring it (abstract, paper) → nih.gov
Free will in philosophy, an encompassing look → stanford.edu