I’ve found that the term ‘object’ - denoting a consolidated focus of thought or feeling - is often freely applied to physical objects, events or conce...
You insisted on a question within the grounds of the OP. Are you looking for truth in the form of a question, or a reductionist methodology from which...
Yes. To clarify, this is not the same as ‘is anything possible?’ or ‘is there anything at all?’. There is a deliberate ambiguity to my question that g...
Could anything be possible? Whether you refer to it as a Higher Power, objective truth/morality, unconditional love, the Absolute, pure possibility or...
I get that this is hypothetical - for me, the question ‘is there a Higher Power?’ is simply one iteration of the contradiction at the core of existenc...
FWIW, I am in agreement with you in this discussion, but I’ve been reluctant to muddy the waters with my own interpretation. It seems confusing enough...
Who’s to say this ‘High Power’ is done creating perfection? There is an assumption here that the creative process is already complete, and that what w...
So much of what you write resonates with my younger self, so I’m glad my responses are helpful to you. By collaboration, I don’t just mean with self-c...
I’ve been reading along quietly with great interest - I wonder how familiar you are with the work of Lisa Feldman Barrett in developing a ‘constructed...
It is creativity - in terms of awareness, connection and collaboration beyond ‘existing structures’ - that enables the perception of structure to chan...
Structures of power are perceptions of potential and value relations - you might see yourself at the ‘lower level of the hierarchy’ in one sense, or a...
This is not how I normally talk - but it’s how I find it most effective to explain my approach. I do lean towards ontological structural realism. Whil...
Is a measurement value the only path to existence? In quantum physics, potential existence is sufficient, and the qualitative variability between stri...
Sorry, most of what I’m writing in this discussion is not as carefully thought through as I’d like. What I mean is that what we refer to as ‘art’ is n...
I think we need to recognise the creative process as more valuable than the consolidated art or artists it produces. It has the effect, as we can see ...
Well, I don’t agree that creativity is a form of human expression, but that human expression is a form of creativity, and that creativity is a process...
People make paintings for a number of reasons, not least of which is to participate or self-consciously consolidate their role in the creative process...
That this meaning of personal art expression is ‘given’ is an important point. Meaning is not confined to significance or value, so the question of wh...
It’s more that we attribute intentionality to the artwork when we judge it as ‘creative’ or ‘not creative’, which reflects more on our ability to perc...
It’s easy to conclude that, sure. But I think if we’re expecting a 2D artwork to do the creative heavy lifting in our relation to it, then we don’t un...
Interesting. I can’t say that I expect my internet to work flawlessly at ALL times - I think the probability is sufficiently high, such that I would a...
Don’t get me wrong: I think an artist can still ‘discover themselves’ through making 2D visual art, and an observer, too, can discover themselves in i...
I am slowly catching up in this thread post-Christmas, but I wanted to quickly comment here... I don’t think that Buddhism advocates dampening certain...
I think art that can lead the viewer into the creative process, to perceive the variability in perspective and not be alarmed or threatened by it, is ...
The art-related courses you’ve done seem to be geared towards employment, so their focus is on the consolidated result rather than the process. I did ...
Personally, I use the term ‘render’ rather than ‘translate’ to describe an interpretation of 3D reality into 2D, because I think there is more to this...
The distinction between objects and symbols/concepts in art is an interesting one, and I have participated in workshops on symbolic expression in art....
First of all, I don’t think it helps to make such sweeping generalisations about what ‘the artist’ believes. To acknowledge that they aren’t identical...
And we return to the idea of ‘order’ in the relation between creativity and action. Metaphorically speaking, I would say creativity ‘springs’ from ima...
It’s interesting that you use the word ‘duplicate’ to mean ‘imitate’. While in many ways this is believed to be the aim of producing art, I don’t beli...
Compassion is the extent to which the underlying impetus to increase awareness, connection and collaboration extends the perception of available value...
That’s not how it works. A dance is always a collaboration between the dancer and the music - it isn’t simply the dancer expressing what they know. Ja...
My perspective is a little different. If you attend a professional dance performance, you can be sure that the dancer has choreographed and rehearsed ...
An idea is not necessarily consolidated - as it ‘pops’ into your head, it needn’t have any semblance of form at all. I think any consolidation of an i...
Yes - but this is where it gets confusing, because the process itself of consolidating potentiality is not bound by time, only what is manifest (‘made...
I didn’t say it wasn’t true - only that, in the creative process, it’s not about formed or consolidated objects, but about the relational structures t...
There is a common confusion between intention and intentionality, just as there is between potential and potentiality. The former has content, the lat...
What they ‘produce’ is done in a conscious way, yes - but that’s not creativity, it’s only a physical manifestation of the ongoing creative process or...
Who says they need to know? Once they attribute intentionality (which is not the same as conscious intent), accurately or not, they recognise it as a ...
Well, all ideas are creative. But when I refer to intentionality, I’m not talking about a self-conscious intention to create a thought. Intentionality...
Either - does it matter? An abstract thinker is necessary to recognise creativity, but not for a creative act to happen. Monkey see and monkey do is n...
Jane could have also just scribbled a few lines on a piece of paper, and it’s likely that John would have recalled being there. It isn’t that ‘the ima...
I have found that new ideas can be original, comprehensible, popular or accurate, but are rarely all of these at once. Which of these is more importan...
“Think of one of the grandest and most obvious phenomena: the diurnal rotation of the skies. It is the most immediate and magnificent characteristic o...
Well, I don’t think that living the ascetic life, or any form of isolation from the world, is the answer. Buddha’s path through life points to the fun...
And here we reach the real problem in discussions about panpsychism and the quantum nature of consciousness: an understanding of what information is, ...
Language doesn’t lend itself to clarity here. My understanding of ‘observation’ as not requiring consciousness comes from the definition used in physi...
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