Toby on the Crazy Rorschach Test

My comment: 

Wow Toby! What a great video! 25:25 On the tortured souls of artists. It may not be so common these days, because there are a lot of artists who achieve some success in their own lives, and the art world is a whole scene, but I think a part of the torture might [be] the response of ordinary people to anybody who thinks too far out of the box. It seems to make people uncomfortable and the way they respond to that discomfort seems a lot like disdain. So I can imagine if someone takes art somewhere it has never been before then the result for them is a lot like social torture. Sartre's "Hell is other people." 

See also Angela Collier's Book Chat with Alan Melikdjanian.

What a trip! 

17:42 On human visual perception see my comment on Marr's algorithmic theory of visual perception in John Searle's Chinese Room Argument. 

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Two [three!] Nick Cave songs came to mind while listening to that. It's amazing what can happen when intelligent people no longer feel bound to social convention: 

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - The Curse of Millhaven 

 

Deanna

The Mercy Seat

Once, a day or two after this song was released, I overheard a conversation between two young men on a street in Cambridge, and one was saying to the other "He's always talking about us but he never mentions us by name" I don't know who they were talking about, but I figured they must be some sort of Christians.

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