SO whats all this talk of chairs on the ceiling that can calculate mathematics?! it sounds like a verse of "hotel california gone" terribly wrong. This was a really huge discussion on nature and art and man made and qualifiers of art. And because all of you were there, i can conclude to a certain degree that it was not resolved in the slightest. So i would like to make a few points. Is that chair an imitation of a true idea of chair? I dont think so, becuase although it is a chair to a certain degree. the function we have assigned to the true chair is no longer the stable factor in the new chair. It is an imitation, to a certain degree. It has become a new idea of chair. And how can we change that idea of chair? Can we? is it within our power? Or is it not? It is easy to assign new meaning to an object, but assigning meaning, we do not change the object physically. Like from my example of a book functioning as a footrest. It is both, becuase we have assigned the meaning to them as both. But the chair is a funtionless show chair. But it is a chair nonetheless.
So my question as of now is, can changing the true meaning of an object or idea, completely transform it into a new thing. Can we in fact change the true idea of something?
Sunday, February 14, 2010
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