Just finished reading "BEAUTY" by Vita Benes. Odd, how both of these have come to me, in the last few hours! This is what I have searched my entire life, in my paintings, to capture the "beauty" that surrounds us, that I hope to share with the world. A lifelong journey into discovery! And I thought I had an personal and "original" question regarding LIFE: "Why am I here?" The more I read, the more I learn > we ALL are on this awesome journey together!
Thanks, Clint. I didn’t understand all of what you wrote, but I was fascinated by the ideas and connections between truth and beauty, space and time. I will read this again and see what else I can absorb!
this reminds me of talks by meditation teachers about the "oneness' of the universe, and applies it to art. Love it, makes me feel connected to the universe more, out of the little personal sphere.
I thought those rose windows compared to piano notes was so interesting! I don’t think it’s such a mystery— many top scientists and archeologists today believe in God and the fact that He created all things. We were created in His image and likeness so we are also creative beings. Our longing to know our creator who is truth and beauty is a part of everyone. I have no doubts about that.
Science is not the basis of all truth. Nore will it ever be. The statment all truth comes from science is self defeating because it cannot be proven by science.
Good thing I didn't say all truth comes from science. Science is not the basis of any truth. It is an attempt to understand and explain the truth.
It's a bit more than studying cause and effect. You have to conjecture what is underlying the cause and form falsifiable, testable ideas about the cause and effect. Science is forming falsifiable hypothesis (best guesses) about the truth and then testing those ideas to see if they accurately predict what happens or not. Science is an attempt to understand the truth, even knowing it will always be an incomplete understanding (Godel's incompleteness theorem)
Perhaps when consciousness perceives the whole of an experience, the gestalt, the mind encodes it as the feeling we call beauty. And when the consciousness perceives the individual interconnected parts, its reductive mechanism, the intellect encodes it as the knowledge we call science.
Just finished reading "BEAUTY" by Vita Benes. Odd, how both of these have come to me, in the last few hours! This is what I have searched my entire life, in my paintings, to capture the "beauty" that surrounds us, that I hope to share with the world. A lifelong journey into discovery! And I thought I had an personal and "original" question regarding LIFE: "Why am I here?" The more I read, the more I learn > we ALL are on this awesome journey together!
Thanks, Clint. I didn’t understand all of what you wrote, but I was fascinated by the ideas and connections between truth and beauty, space and time. I will read this again and see what else I can absorb!
this reminds me of talks by meditation teachers about the "oneness' of the universe, and applies it to art. Love it, makes me feel connected to the universe more, out of the little personal sphere.
I thought those rose windows compared to piano notes was so interesting! I don’t think it’s such a mystery— many top scientists and archeologists today believe in God and the fact that He created all things. We were created in His image and likeness so we are also creative beings. Our longing to know our creator who is truth and beauty is a part of everyone. I have no doubts about that.
Science is not the basis of all truth. Nore will it ever be. The statment all truth comes from science is self defeating because it cannot be proven by science.
Science is the study of cause and effect.
Good thing I didn't say all truth comes from science. Science is not the basis of any truth. It is an attempt to understand and explain the truth.
It's a bit more than studying cause and effect. You have to conjecture what is underlying the cause and form falsifiable, testable ideas about the cause and effect. Science is forming falsifiable hypothesis (best guesses) about the truth and then testing those ideas to see if they accurately predict what happens or not. Science is an attempt to understand the truth, even knowing it will always be an incomplete understanding (Godel's incompleteness theorem)
Very creative article Clint, thank you.
Perhaps when consciousness perceives the whole of an experience, the gestalt, the mind encodes it as the feeling we call beauty. And when the consciousness perceives the individual interconnected parts, its reductive mechanism, the intellect encodes it as the knowledge we call science.