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Several hypotheses have been put forward about the meaning of The Creation of Adam's highly original composition, many of them taking Michelangelo's well-documented expertise in human anatomy as their starting point. In 1990 an Anderson, Indiana physician named Frank Lynn Meshberger noted in the medical publication the Journal of the American Medical Association that the background figures and shapes portrayed behind the figure of God appeared to be an anatomically accurate picture of the human brain, including the frontal lobe, optic chiasm, brain stem, pituitary gland, and the major sulci of the cerebrum. Meshberger also argues that there appears to be communication present despite the gap between the depicted Adam and God, just as neurons transmit biochemical information across synaptic clefts.[1] Alternatively, it has been observed that the red cloth around God has the shape of a human uterus (one art historian has called it a "uterine mantle"[2]), and that the scarf hanging out, colored green, could be a newly cut umbilical cord. Additional hypothetical perception elucidated by philosophical interpreter’s Najiib Nsubuga and Christian Wayi-wayi is the depiction whereby the red cloth surrounding the figure “God” may represent the human Cerebrum due to it silhouette, thus God is a fabricated entity within Adam’s mind (the human mind) and only exists as a pseudo symbol within society. God is a conception of Adams imagination.
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