What is Art?
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If you're going to give an account of the world, you have to look very closely at this, like a physicist looks at her data when estimating trajectories of objects in space.
Death is a termination, but as such, it is incomplete as an account for the experience of being human. This is not to elaborate metaphysically, but simply to put forth an error theory: causality cannot explain our world, and our world must be explained because it is not a fiction, the experiences that constitute ethics are real.
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Almost all of my subsequent life was devoted to give my highly clever and remarkably self sufficient injured son a decent life and this was immensely rewarding. Much of the rest of my family suffered from this necessity. I am a very poor linguist and my Finnish never became fluent with obvious economic consequences. Nevertheless I came to appreciate the people and the culture here in Helsinki as far more congenial and less ferocious than that of the USA. Life is what it is and being alive itself is an extraordinary adventure and there is little other than that to require of it. The more I learn of my species the more I am sad it never learned to understand to utilize its potentials properly. I am continually impressed with Einstein's observation that two infinities exist, the extent of the universe and the stupidity of humanity and the latter is far greater and more certain
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In the comparisons of art and science it seems worthwhile to consider mathematics since that is a universe unto itself wherein science has settled and populated and where art still finds itself somewhat alien. This is, in no way, to deny the artistic values within the multidimensional objects math has revealed or the fascinating Mandelbrot explorations, amongst others, which have extensive art values.
In my own attempt to understand my thoughts I have arrived at the generality that my mind thinks in patterns of relationships of all sorts from shape to color to processes and many others. And it is patterns of various kinds that also form the contents of art and science and mathematics. We live today in a world of mathematics involving economics and finance and government and business and health and all our digital gadgetry.
All of my life I have both admired the intricacies dealing with numbers and felt that they were so foreign to my basic nature that they were somehow like hordes of insects that are driven to consume all my instinctive values and leave my world somehow lifeless. The recent rush of developments of robots impress me in the same way as crude attempts to invade the world of life and leave it bloodless and frightening. Evolution has manufactured organic instruments for sight and sound and all the other sense devices that my brain processes and those advances in scientific instrumentation that reveal the great inadequacies of my sensing set to know how unknowable the real universe may be right in front of me impress me with both wonder and fright as to how little I know or even can know.
Art, on the other hand, slips easily into my eyes, my ears, my sense of scents, and sits in the palm of my hand like a wonderful young bird that can spread its wings to explore the clouds. It is full of love and hate, delight and fear, visions and sounds. funny creatures that smile at me and sneeze and burp.
Art is a world of life.
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But on the other hand, it will lead to our emancipation from practical necessity one day. Imagine waking up in an age where there are no mechanics, trash collectors, plumbers, electricians, even doctors, and so on; because these are done by some self sustaining, maintenance free body of mechanized middlemen. And humanity then looks to art and speculation and finally discovers its freedom and the real meaning of religion (and those awful metaphysical books written thousands of years ago are committed to the dustbin of abandoned thinking).Jan Sand
The recent rush of developments of robots impress me in the same way as crude attempts to invade the world of life and leave it bloodless and frightening.
As I am on a Kierkegaard reading binge, I am behooved to recommend reading him. His Philosophical Fragments is a good start. But Kant should be read before anyone else.
Good Luck to you Jan Sand!
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What I have read of Kant and his rather weird suppositions is more amusing than instructive.
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I never wanted to dominate anybody nor be so dominated so I frankly do not particularly identify with other humans.
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I hear a lot of this kind of thing.......from people who have never read Kant.What I have read of Kant and his rather weird suppositions is more amusing than instructive.
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"Kierkegaard's analysis of the present age uses terms that resemble but are not exactly coincident with Hegel and Marx's theory of alienation. However Kierkegaard expressly means that human beings are alienated from God because they are living too much in the world. Individuals need to gain their souls from the world because it actually belongs to God. Kierkegaard has no interest in external battles as Karl Marx does. His concern is about the inner fight for faith."
As someone who finds this kind of subjugation to myth to be quite ridiculous I cannot see pursuing the thoughts to make sense.
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