Brett

So yours is a sort of intellectual empathy, right? Cognitive empathy.

Why do you think those things shouldn’t be done?

Because it’s the subject of the OP then yes. So we’re not talking about an absolutely original act, like an Obsidian cutting tool. Assuming I’m correc...

True, but I need to know what is meant by original.

So does that suggest that originality is a perception? Then that means there are different kinds of original.

You would think that something original could only happen once. From then on the artist or others is imitating the original. Abstract art was a way of...

I’ve just being thinking; why do we use the word original? It seems to me to present the same problems as nothing, as in Why something rather than not...

Very creative.

That’s true too. Hence their question “If they’re just copying what’s in front of them are they being creative?”

I think the answer to the OP question was always there. Yes art can be called creative, but not necessarily original.

In relation to the OP? I think it’s a mistake to use creative and original as synonyms. The answer might be it’s creative but not original.

I guess you could ask at what point a painting is no longer copying, representing or imitating something.

But I don’t know if I would call Monet’s “Haystacks” an interpretation so much as a study of light. On the other hand everything might be considered i...

I think @"Darkneos" is just using this term loosely to separate a copy from an original work that, as I said, exists within itself. Call if representa...

What’s a copy? How could we define if enough to say “it’s not a copy”?

Second thoughts: I think it’s worth remembering, though you may not agree, that all three: religion, philosophy and science were, are, developed from ...

I think the relationship the US had with religion is not so removed from philosophy as Athena might think. It seems to me that religion was a way of c...

Yes I think so. If it’s a copy of something then it doesn’t exist in its own right. Picasso’s Dora Maar portrait is not a copy of her face or head.

Interesting that you break technology up into two eras. So what is modern technology, how would we define that and where’s the crossover point?

I think it’s a double edged sword. We may not have the ability to manage what we develop, despite there being useful technologies among what we do dev...

Probably not for everyone though. Access to clean, safe water has not always been available to everyone. Consequently life is one of physical struggle...

That’s fine. Maybe we’ll find a ground to meet on.

This suggests there might be something else technology might contribute. Is that what you mean?

Word games. My reference to statistics was in regard to the number of people living on the edge, not about the meaning of “the quality of life”.

In the beginning, yes.

Is this rhetorical?

This is a general meaning given to quality: “ the standard of something as measured against other things of a similar kind; the degree of excellence o...

It’s not so hard to find a beginning point to the question. Quality of life for all people would begin with access to food and water, shelter and a fe...

In the Darwinian sense we are here because of the benefits our mutations gave us as a leg up. Those that gave no advantage, or found no conditions to ...

That’s a very interesting point. Which suggests that collective decisions, I.e. the community, are made for some abstract reason for some abstract ide...

The post of yours about people coming to their own conclusions seems to me to suggest that those decisions would be more pure than those forced on peo...

What sort of community do you envisage existing according to this premise?

I presume you’re meaning a woman giving birth to a baby. But I’m not sure if we’re fully aware of all the reasons behind a woman having a baby.

Do you think this is the reason people want to fit in so badly or is there something else going on?

I like this. I’ve been discussing this with a friend who just takes me around in circles. My feeling is that “nothing” only exists as a construct in b...

I think you’re right there, even though I find myself resisting and considering the value of “the individual” as an essential element within the group...

What do you mean by “random mutation for sociability”? A mutation of what? In one of my posts I mentioned “ Before the community, or tribe, he was an ...

I don’t know about that. It’s the community that creates the environment that enables a person to pursue ideas of individuality. Before the community,...

I’ll address your posts but we’re beginning to go off topic I think. But maybe not. I don’t think that’s really true. The economy is a beast that need...

A dancer doesn’t need music to dance. In that case it absolutely is the dancer expressing what they know (and I’m not completely happy with the word “...

That may be true, but despite being human we’re still a lot different from serfs living in sod huts. Our perspective on life and morals can change, wh...

So was I. I was looking at the beginning of a trajectory into the future and where it might go.

When I am talking about the dance and dancer I’m not talking about a choreographed dance. I’m talking about a dance that is created as the dancer danc...

What would you call it when people elect a government and then treat them like dirt and expect them to do all the dirty work, then set the press on th...

There’s a difference here between the dancer, the painter and the mathematician. So let’s say that moment, for the dancer, is a series of rapid decisi...

Yes I think it does decrease with age. But I don’t think it has anything to do with emotion. Especially as people create things for different reasons.

“ There was in Athens (and also Elis, Tegea, and Thasos) a smaller body, the boul?, which decided or prioritised the topics which were discussed in th...

That’s an interesting point. Today we are the economy, except that it also operates as a separate entity in the sense that we have very little control...

If something about human nature changed, about what is core to humanity, then something different could develop in terms of forms of the existence or ...

I think we might be getting bogged down by the word “obliged”. You may be regarding it being used in the same way as a “rule”. That it’s the rule in s...