What is painting, but a communication channel for the MESSAGE between artist and viewer? Artists first imagine a painting, using their "mind's eye" image of a segment of their world. Next, using their genius, techniques, and skill, they transfer their mental representations onto the canvas. What is then the function of the externalised painting? It is to communicate a message to a viewer. Our book is about a "neurological theory of art," inasmuch it relates the particular perspective of cybernetics viewing art as "communication channel" with neuroscientific experimental findings, experiences...