Henri

This one was sold for over 100 million dollars. https://i.ibb.co/vvMbHWg/pollock.jpg I don't know if it's worth that much. Maybe 50, 60 million dollar...

You might have had different opinion if Picasso wasn't heavily promoted to you as one of the genius artists of 20th century and Guernica as masterpiec...

This is a discussion probably never had with a client: Client: I have made my own definition of what hardware engineering is, because all definitions ...

You keep quoting me incompletely, making the thing I said it's opposite. I said - I believe I have a good hold on what is good and bad, objectively, b...

You offered Guernica as an example of a message without experience. You said: "Guernica offers a message to me: the savagery of war is wrong! To you i...

But that joke is on you. You present these two paintings to people who didn't see them, with just a name of the painting and the painting itself. Firs...

I didn't ask what is the difference between literal message of the paintings (which is always secondary thing), but what is the difference between two...

Which one of the two provides more experience, a sense, a feeling, of "war is wrong"? https://i.ibb.co/61rQtqS/warpainting1.jpg https://i.ibb.co/ng8kV...

Yes, I agree. I meant product as a "produced thing". A piece of art as man made creation.

It's a product as "a thing that is the result of an action or process". A man made thing. It doesn't just happen. It's produced. Maybe more precisely ...

Generally speaking, yes. With the distinction that artist doesn't send a message but an experience. Art (a piece of art) is complex product, but it's ...

But what about the subject and the artist is it? You could also extract an information in terms of race, and say, the difference is that one painting ...

Yes, ‘Transformers’ are a piece of art. But as I wrote previously: "Being entertained is certainly a slice of what you can get through art. But it's a...

https://i.ibb.co/yYRSvD1/portraits2.jpg Here are three paintings with three levels of abstraction. First is hyperrealism. It looks exactly like a phot...

Art is for impressing on you a (human) experience through an agent. An agent is a piece of art in its raw, or direct, state - a story you read about o...

Yes, insults prove smarts.

You don't get what good means.

Being entertained is certainly a slice of what you can get through art. But it's a very small segment out of all experiences you can get. And I would ...

You could extract insight from anything, essentially. From reading a news article, having a blister on your hand, observing a toddler. And from art to...

If your question was the best you can do, you got the best answer. Don't act smart and then cry afterwards.

Hopefully you won't get to understand it first hand.

The irony.

God can destroy your soul. Although some might argue that Canada can too. But seriously, God can destroy your soul.

You don't need me to tell you that when you fart no genius melody comes out of your rear, randomly. It's just a fart, every single time.

Art is not about extracting (intellectual) insights. I guess you do mean insight as an intellectual, logical, deduction. A thought of wisdom of sorts....

Based on what I see being presented here, I doubt that's the case. Anyway, there are many calculations, done by both mathematicians and physicists, wh...

? I am saying that you can calculate probability with whatever information you have. That's what method of probability is for. The more information yo...

So you are saying that in order to know probability you have to know all? Then, sorry, but you don't understand what probability is. Probability is me...

Actually, it is a definition of crazy to accept that one with 0% chance is how things are. Ironically, randomness is one which is magical in your voca...

I always suspected there was something snobby about speed.

And transport highlights the elitism of space.

I used to think there is some sort of general or nominal will that drives the universe, or that every piece of universe has some part of that will, or...

What is good? Good is what is aligned with the reality. God is the reality, or the existence. Everything God does is aligned with the existence, since...

? During the movie, what you got is shallow experience, and after the movie, you remember the thing nominally, but it's as if you didn't even watch it...

I am not interested much in a dialog with you, really... How your memory works is not important factor in this discussion. The experience itself is ri...

I agree with a lot of what @"Janus" has written, so I won't repeat. I have also come to conclusion that because of the nature of what art is, some art...

Great observations.

I guess I'm out of this roundabout.

I meant - it would be if this is random-based reality. In that sense, regarding your ethical question, one from the OP I guess, in random-based realit...

I especially enjoy African goose special haiku. Marabou storks are up there too. But man, even masters like Taneda or Samukawa don't hold a candle to ...

Art Lament by Henri Some say a piece of art is but a fart, Transformers save the universe, And Hamlet only dies, not smart, Where is the might? Who is...

What you call "lawful activity" would be a collection of randomly created random laws, ultimately, randomness. Statistically, it is more probable by t...

Natural selection keeps or rejects? Like, mother nature, a conscious being, keeps or rejects something? But you don't really mean it, it's a figure of...

Because a sting has to look believable.

Piece of art, generally speaking, is one of the, if not the most intricate product human makes, which communicates to the mind of another human with t...

"Creating in likeness of x" is not "creating exactly x". And "creating" is an active tense, work in progress. And, by the way, a theory of how conscio...

Atta boy, let them!

Well, folks certainly have a mouth to voice what they want. I don't know how far off am I to guess that for most people here, if you were to be their ...

I made my contribution in previous page, to the OP. Am looking forward to replies from people with whom it's possible to reason with. Que sera, sera.

Take it however you like. Not that you have demonstrated to have a mind that can reason rationally and logically. At least not in what I have seen tod...