Music, existential aesthetics, 1

[Lushsymphony]

I've seen parts 1,2, and 3. All I can say is

Amen to you. Thank you so much for sharing.

Are there any books you may suggest on the topic you speak of for further inquiry?

I'm currently reading "Art As Experience", a series of collected lectures at Harvard by John Dewey. Several points he raises allude to your idea on art.

[pretecsh]

I'm sure you've seen it, but the movie "Equilibrium" with Christian Bale is basically the hollywood manifestation of this series of youtube videos!

[Samanmotlagh]

I agree.

According to most linguists, it would be odd if our language was developed slowly thru many generations. That's not how the emerging of languages usually work, it takes 1-2 generations to create a language.

Whatever the biological explanation (or other), it seems fair to surmise that our ability (cerebrally) to use language came as a very radical change, changing us to, as you put it 'beasts that express'.

[LynxChan]

I'm arriving late on the scene, but I wonder about just how transcendent the change really is. Not in being unimportant, but that in it being sudden.

Primates have the capacity for limited abstraction, as well as the capacity to conceive and make tools, as well as teaching concepts to young.

You seem to be discussing the appearance of memes on the scene of humanity. A big question is when did humans start conceiving of beauty as a good thing in and of itself and not just a sign of greater (con)

[LynxChan]

reproductive fitness. I don't have the answer to that, obviously.

Saying that the total is the sum of parts is incomplete. The total is the sum of parts PLUS THEIR INTERACTIONS. Interactions between a large enough number of parts are too complex to be at all predictable, rendering the question of emergent properties an academic one.

Just one nitpick; It's actually our DNA, not RNA, that directs heredity, though there are hypothesis that say that the first self-reproductive molecule was RNA

[TheCarruths]

Yes, yes, yes. You get the essence of it.

[Eduard392]

you seem like a really nice guy, but i really want to ask, why would you do that to your ears and nose? Now it seems like im asking it in a jerky manner, but im not. I just dont find it very natural. I dont think we were meant to have our ear lobes spaced out 3/4 of an inch. Its like a permanent scar.

[danuu2]

Cancer is natural.

[Phosphorus999]

This reminds me of a certain DR. who held infamous dinner parties in Chattanoog TN.

[n0fa1th]

This seems very similar to the meme's argument of thoughts themselves replicating and seeking to preserve themselves. A Christian dies to protect Christianity.

[bendingnote]

persons do not exist in christianity, god does not exist in terms of persons in christianity.

the notion of platonism is proto-catholicism.

in fact they are just copying and misunderstanding hindu-philosophy, very tragic!

[HGude]

Very interesting.

[dilonn]

what do you do for a living? im not being rude i just really would like to know

[Evershear]

As a theist I have the view that we have the desire to create because we are the Image of God and since we are like him we to are creators only on a lesser scale.

[InfoJunkieHolland]

have you ever seen a bird chirping or dancing to lure females?

compare the brains of a peacock and a human. no evenhanded comparison i know.

but do you see the similarities in the behavior of those birds and us, keeping in mind our differences in brain size and composition?

[bendingnote]

as if we are a unchained melody, humans are animals although animals would like to distantiate from human behaviour. i think humanism is the biggest problem that has ever walked around on this planet, inequality is just on of the human traits, humans are addicted to fear, fear is their basic instinct and women within the human species are ridiculous in general, an eternal wasp nest of neverending competition.

[bendingnote]

you think that a creator deserves any scale?

[AWA821]

jdging other beings by their n-ability to create wrks of art tht we see as self xpression(i.e. paintings, novels, architecture, poetry, etc.)is somthing like spiders jdging us 4 r cmpletely deficient web bulding, some fish seeing only our lack of ability to travel as one in schuls, or whales noticing our ardent stpidity in the face of communication by song. I don't think r artistic expressions r so Universally Grandiose as they seem to b frm the imaginary throne of human xistence.

[rebyoshi]

Is leaning on a STOVE during COOKING a wise idea - Even from a drunken perspective?

[bubonicnate]

Yay! waiting till the end to comment more than that - hehe