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By Clayton D. Drinko

Improvisation lecturers Viola Spolin, Del shut, and Keith Johnstone knew that with constitution and directions, the human brain can be informed to be easily spontaneous and intuitive. Cognitive experiences is ultimately catching up with what improvisers have recognized for over fifty years. via archival learn, workshops, and interviews, Theatrical Improvisation, realization, and Cognition explores improvisation's results on awareness and cognition and compares those theories to present findings in cognitive neuroscience, psychology, and philosophy

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Now players give definitive and simpler statements about all the things they now are. In this example, players are now the boat. 11 Close believed the unconscious held more sway in the universe than most people know. In one anecdote, he traveled to a Wiccan banishing ceremony in Canada to cure his cocaine addiction. After the ceremony, he started using cocaine again almost immediately. Then he bought some bad cocaine. Then dealers started to fall through. 12 All this is to say, he had a developing respect for the power of the unconscious and wanted to tap into that potential through his improv teaching.

I do not mean to personify these mindless clusters, merely explain the discovery succinctly and simply. Through the mirror system, the actions of others are often not experienced on a conscious level. The brain has many other parts that usually override consciously experiencing someone else’s action as one’s own. Ramachandran does describe brain abnormalities such as with phantom limbs though. Sometimes with phantom limbs, a person is able to feel when someone else’s hand is touched. Ramachandran describes his use of mirrors in this pursuit in his The Tell-Tale Brain.

57 Just as in improv, the player of life is supposed to accept the reality presented by others as they really are instead of struggling to turn them into something preconceived or scripted. Lao Tzu’s nonactive action is Chopra’s law of least effort. 1057/9781137335296 - Theatrical Improvisation, Consciousness, and Cognition, Clayton D. 58 She also talked about how life is all about the connections between people. This outward focus on others is at the heart of both improvisation and life as a complex social being.

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