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Well done! This is always an issue, you just can not trust anything without examining it in great detail yourself. :sad: I think the logic of a time o...
September 20, 2021 at 23:02
Possibly there is an element of that going on, but this would not negate the view that it is a meeting of minds?
September 20, 2021 at 22:03
Yes, it is no different really. The only difference is that the artist is not there. What is there is something that represents him / her - entangled ...
September 20, 2021 at 21:55
Yes, to perceive is inherently experiential, so emotional - has feeling and quality. This begs the question how are aesthetics relevant to art exclusi...
September 20, 2021 at 21:07
How is a "self" different to one's consciousness? If art is an expression of consciousness, then art is also an expression of self. Art work is inform...
September 20, 2021 at 20:02
:up: Very well put.
September 20, 2021 at 19:11
The way I am starting to understand this from an information theoretic is: The particle is a body of information being acted upon by an informational ...
September 19, 2021 at 23:52
:up: In systems theory what is always there - what is common to all systems, is self organization. In information theory, it is information that self ...
September 19, 2021 at 23:28
:up: Yep! 1. Potential information exists in the book on a shelf 2. Actual information occurs when we read it - interact with it. 3. Consciousness occ...
September 19, 2021 at 22:53
No problem at all. :smile: You raise reasonable objections in an intelligent manner - what more can one ask for? :up: Art is an expression of human co...
September 19, 2021 at 21:04
The Information Philosopher - A common definition of information is the act of informing - the communication of knowledge from a sender to a receiver ...
September 19, 2021 at 07:24
:up: :lol: From my perspective I see the poodle. Yeah, the material art form is a private ( but can be public ) language invented by an artist ( in mo...
September 19, 2021 at 02:45
( I was wondering where you were? ) :up: This highlights the potential of information. This is pretty close, and works well in your scheme. Another as...
September 18, 2021 at 20:29
Duchamp was a great art thinker - a philosopher of art. Modern art asked the hard questions - where are we, who are we, why are we? And what is art? I...
September 18, 2021 at 19:54
This is best answered through information theory. It seems information is something concrete such that it changes our neurology, such that we become c...
September 18, 2021 at 19:44
:up: :up: If deemed to be so. :up: :chin: Only when they are being observed, or when the temperature is measured. :up: :chin: I understand what you me...
September 18, 2021 at 19:18
:lol: Yeah, we were bound to self organize. :joke:
September 18, 2021 at 01:54
:up: Yeah - Self organization!. "The term self-organization refers to the process by which individuals organize their communal behavior to create glob...
September 18, 2021 at 01:39
:up: Yeah, that's the way I'm seeing it also. I think consciousness is effectively work in progress, but not absolutely. There are studies suggesting ...
September 17, 2021 at 23:25
:up: Gonna need it. :smile:
September 17, 2021 at 21:51
You can not avoid expressing your consciousness in any activity that you partake in, so how can you avoid it when making art? You can not. So, what ar...
September 17, 2021 at 21:38
Not sure what you mean. My point is that art must reflect mind activity - that is the constant in art - the only constant - everything else is variabl...
September 17, 2021 at 21:28
Self organization gives rise to order in the universe. Who self organized first - God or us? :chin:
September 17, 2021 at 21:16
The forms are endlessly variable and open ended, and so can not be defined. Art can not be defined in terms of it's forms, which is the mistake most p...
September 17, 2021 at 21:12
Art work is information about the artist's consciousness. This is a definition of art that is falsifiable by providing an art work that it does not co...
September 17, 2021 at 21:08
My thoughts are not universal, but the underlying process giving rise to them is - self organization. We are the same, just different in formation. Re...
September 17, 2021 at 20:58
This is where the definition comes into its own. it tells us that the artist - audience relationship is a relationship of consciousness in relation to...
September 17, 2021 at 20:52
In arriving at the definition, I looked for the things present in art always - for all time. This , of course is mind activity - art reflects mind act...
September 17, 2021 at 20:47
Please read my reply to Ambrosia above. The definition itself is intended as a work of art. The fact is : "art is an ungrounded variable mental constr...
September 17, 2021 at 20:27
I have addressed the relevant points. It may surprise you, but I am not interested in your opinion of what a definition of art should be. Nor am I int...
September 17, 2021 at 20:07
And which of these eludes my definition ?
September 17, 2021 at 07:02
It is a definition of art. When defining something you don't get a choice as to how it exists! :lol: It is irreducibly defined. It may not be what you...
September 17, 2021 at 06:44
How is this relevant to a definition of art? Can you produce an art work that is not captured by my definition?
September 17, 2021 at 05:29
Are you serious? :chin:
September 17, 2021 at 05:20
:up: No ill will in philosophy, just endless debate! :smile: One last try, and I am done. Art is information about the artist's evolving process of se...
September 17, 2021 at 01:20
Well you can not say I haven't tried. :smile:
September 16, 2021 at 23:25
Please read my reply to Madfool, RusselA, Netzolief above.
September 16, 2021 at 23:05
:up: Yes, now we are on the same page. It often takes a few posts. :smile: I don't think it is possible, at present, or ever, to absolutely define the...
September 16, 2021 at 23:01
I have defined art in such a way as it could be defined. In irreducible terms, and at the same time defined the limits of art. I don't think my defini...
September 16, 2021 at 22:10
I have defined consciousness as an evolving process of self organization, but I do not know what is the source of self organization in the universe, h...
September 16, 2021 at 21:44
At least you acknowledge this much. An artwork is information about the artist's evolving process of self organization. We dont know what self organiz...
September 16, 2021 at 21:13
Yes, art provides information about an artist's consciousness - we came full circle by way of questioning, since, it seems, you did not really underst...
September 16, 2021 at 21:07
Initially I did want to publish it, but then I changed my mind. It is a scientific, irreducible, and falsifiable definition of art, something Wittgens...
September 16, 2021 at 20:58
An understanding of what art provides.
September 16, 2021 at 07:54
These are elements of your consciousness - of your self organization. This is a definition of art - it captures all art for all time, for all cultures...
September 16, 2021 at 07:41
https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/586578
September 16, 2021 at 06:54
That is obvious from what you have written. This is a definition of art. It defines precisely what art provides - information about the artist's consc...
September 16, 2021 at 06:25
Whilst you are thinking about this then it is information, but when you stop thinking about this and think about the football, then it is not informat...
September 16, 2021 at 06:13
How does personal taste arise? What is subjectivity a function of?
September 16, 2021 at 05:12
An art created by a particular consciousness, will be appreciated by a likewise consciousness. But not by an unlike consciousness. This fact, prevents...
September 16, 2021 at 02:10