Philosophy Wire: Sleep tight… War is nigh…

Love is not the primary reason humans developed music. A new evolutionary theory of the origins of music argues more evidence supports music coming from the need for groups to impress allies and foes, and for parents to signal their attention to infants. They also argue against the theory that making music arose out of a need for social bonding, or that it is 'auditory cheesecake' a fancy evolutionary byproduct with no purpose. [1] War. Death. Love. Pain. Life. Peace. The origins of music are not notes or sound. The origins of music is noise and silence. Fighting eternally. To provide meaning to what does not have. To stripe things of the meaning the void of nothingness gives them. Listen to the music. Can't you feel it? The only way to dream of smiling is to let yourself cry...

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Philosophy Wire: Virtual. Reality.

Virtual reality activates brain networks that increase your ability to identify with other people, according to new research published in eNeuro. The technology could become a tool in the treatment of violent offenders to empathize more with others. [1] What a petty world. Their most intelligent inhabitants cannot understand it. But a small ant can. Humans wandering around trying to empathize. But whatever can be simulated can be nothing but fake. Henry is here. Bees buzzing near flowers. My dear Basil. Dorian Gray is dead. What a beautiful painting!

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Philosophy Wire: Speaking art… Seeking art…

Information about an artwork has no effect on the aesthetic experience of museum visitors. The characteristics of the artwork itself have a much stronger impact on observers. [1]

Search for art.
Speak art.
Look art.
Listen art.
Not in art.

But in everything else.
Live. Die.
Burn the painting.

Can you cry?

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Philosophy Wire: Finding ghosts…

Combining big data with artificial intelligence has allowed University of Copenhagen researchers to determine whether you wrote your assignment or whether a ghostwriter penned it for you -- with nearly 90 percent accuracy. [1] Trying to understand if someone else wrote something. But is it possible to ever write something on your own? Is it you who writes down this novel? Or your long lost lover? Is it you who writes that paper on gravity? Or Newton, Einstein and their endless efforts to unlock the mysteries of the cosmos? Is it you who writes those good jokes? Or your parents with whom you laughed together on that shiny afternoon by the beach? Relax. It is not you who is writing. But keep laughing. Keep on crying. For without even a drop off ink, you will keep on writing long after your are gone…

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Philosophy Wire: Art lost in code…

Software- and computer-based works of art are fragile - not unlike their canvas counterparts - as their underlying technologies such as operating systems and programming languages change rapidly, placing these works at risk. Just as conservators have developed methods to protect traditional artworks, computer scientists, in collaboration with time-based media conservators, have created means to safeguard computer- or time-based art by following the same preservation principles. [1] Trying to restore art. But art is not meant to last. Everything beautiful dies. And, because of this, it lives forever. Inside the dark paths of the modern Internet, between the millions of lines of code in C# and Java, beyond the powerful processors of today and past the ultra-fast quantum computers, watch closely and you’ll still hear the grudging sound of a Commodore 128 drive trying to load Mission Impossible. No, you will probably never play that game again (at least not in an original Commodore). But you will remember it until you die. You were a small child then. You only stayed a while. You stayed for ever…

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Philosophy Wire: Can’t see well…

An eye disorder may have given Leonardo da Vinci an artistic edge. [1] Not surprising at all. For only those who cannot see well can see at all. In a cosmos full of light, there is no way to distinguish anything. Unless the dusk starts to fall…

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Philosophy Wire: Learning new songs…

Researchers have shown for the first time that they could teach young sparrows in the wild how to sing a new tune. The wild birds then passed the new songs on to the next generation. [1] What a wonderful cosmos. In the beginning there was silence. And then, suddenly, music filled the cosmos. But only because there was no music in the first place… Listen to that song… How delightfully silent…

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Philosophy Wire: Art dasein…

A grasshopper was found inside the paint of a famous painting. [1] Surely a weird and funny matter. But look again at the painting. There is more than a small grasshopper inside it. There is the Sun. There is the painter. There is Earth. There is happiness and sorrow. There are tears and laughter. Look again… Everything is in that painting… The painter himself. And all those who saw the painting and admired it. The whole universe is inside that painting. The stars and the galaxies. As they were that day when the painting came to be. The Sun, Jupiter and Saturn. They all watched the masterpiece come to life. They all stared in awe. They all approved. And as Cronus ate his children, this painting has devoured all existence in a single moment. It is all there. See beyond the paint. No, not the grasshopper. Look at the painter smiling. Feel him. At that very moment he was not a painter. He was God. Putting himself on the canvas.

PS. Even an onion right after it was cut…

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Merry Christmas! Καλά Χριστούγεννα!

Merry Christmas!

Καλά Χριστούγεννα!

Philosophy Wire: Dissonant chords. Consonant chords.

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2016-12-28]: Musical tastes are cultural, not hardwired in the brain, new research suggests. In a study of a remote Amazonian tribe called the Tsimane, whose members have little or no exposure to Western music, dissonant chords were rated just as likeable as consonant chords. [1] But wait a minute… If a dissonant chord is liked by someone, then this means that for that someone this chord is not… “dissonant”. Who decides what is good music? Is the universe playing Bach or singing Madonna? The cosmos is silent. Just dance. Without judging. You are mad just for listening to music in the first place…

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Philosophy Wire: Male sculptors… Should they exist?

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2016-01-23]:

“Don’t play with these. These are girl’s toys. You are a man.” 
Says the parent to the small boy trying to play with girls playing with modelling clay.

And as simple as that…
Right in front of our eyes…
Another sculptor died…

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Παιδιά σε σώμα ενήλικα... / Children in adults body...

‘Love,’ by Ukrainian sculptor Alexander Milov, Burning Man festival, Nevada, 2015 [source]

Πολύ σοβαροί για να βρούμε το νόημα της ζωής...
Too serious to find the meaning of life...

Philosophy Wire: Art. Algorithms.

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2014-09-13]: Another computer which creates "art" based on some kind of an algorithm. [1] So?

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Philosophy Wire: Art. Garbage. Cleaning ladies.

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2014-04-02]: Modern art thrown away by cleaning lady as garbage! [1] A cleaning lady is the most honest critic. And the only reason we do not accept her opinion is because we think we know better because we "are better". But no one is "better" than anyone. Beware of the one who cleans out your garbage. Persuade him and you will own the world.

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Philosophy Wire: Fake real painting...

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2014-03-23]:

An astounding painting not exhibited because it is "fake". [1]
But what is fake and what is real?
How can ANYTHING be fake?
The painting is what it is.
It is just not what you expected it to be.
Let us leave our self guide us instead of the "experts".
Just enjoy what you... enjoy!
Without thinking too much.
Stop thinking how not to be fake in order to be real...

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Philosophy Wire: Play the piano. Feel!

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2014-02-22]: Rubbery robot fingers play piano faster than a human. [1] Robots can also run faster than humans. And they are also stronger than us. SO?

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LSD, απελευθερωμένη συνείδηση / LSD, unleashed consciousness

Φιλοσοφικό Τηλεγράφημα του Σπύρου Κάκου [2013-12-30]:  Ζωγραφίζοντας υπό την επήρρεια LSD. [1] Το συγκεκριμένο γίνεται Ασαφές. Το Εγώ γίνεται Τα πάντα. Το Βαρετό γίνεται Μαγικό. Κάτι που κρύβεται στον κόσμο για καιρό, προσπαθεί να βγει έξω και να ουρλιάξει... Απελευθερωμένη συνείδηση!

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2013-12-30]: Painting under LSD. [1] The Specific becomes Vague. The I becomes Everything. Dull becomes Magical. Something hiding for a long time in the world, tries to get out and scream... Consciousness unleashed!

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Philosophy Wire: Whalers, art, "art"...

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2013-12-15]: Whalers did the most magnificent art ("scrimshaw"). [1] But no one appreciates that art as art. No one called them artists. One does the most important things effortlessl. This is the only way to live. Do what you want. Make the most exquisite original art and keep it for your self. Leave the rest talking about what you live. Be you.

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Philosophy Wire: Art, bullshit, puke.

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2013-12-01]: An art student will lose his virginity in front of an audience to make... art! [1, 2] If I puke, am I going to be considered an artist too?

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Philosophy Wire: Hit him on the head artist!

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2013-11-27]: An electrical zap in the brain makes you like art better. [1] You are your voltage. The point is, who controls the "regulator"?

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