From: QueeneMUSE@aol.com
Date: Fri Feb 25 2000 - 11:20:59 MST
In a message dated 2/25/2000 10:01:29 AM Pacific Standard Time,
allsop@fc.hp.com writes:
<< So I take it you
would consider such a non complex machine which is clearly superior
to the worlds best artist at resolving differences in color, to be a
far better artist? >>
OK, you can take cake too, and tea and scones, but it's nothing to so with
what I said.
You might also call an electronic tape measure a better architect than Frank
Lloyd Wright . Why not assert that therefore, architecture's not complex?
Detecting a particular vibrational measurement neither negates nor indicates
the *concpets* complexity. It merely indicates the complexity of the device.
Nor does it describe the phenomenon red in any way.
How our vision works, the very fact that human beings INVENTED a machine
to do that, when there are millions of shades of that color which we can
quicly recognize under one heading, is indicative of the complexity of the
concept humans invented to describe any color, even a simple primary color
like 'red.'
And it illustrates the lengths we go to qualify it, elusive as it is.
<< Clearly the difference is, our representation of such a
simple shade of red, though it isn't quite as complex, is simply
"phenomenal", "artful", "spiritual", "motivational", "emotional",
"joyful"... or whatever you want to call it, rather than some
"abstract" or mapped, doesn't matter what the actual physical
representation is made of binary number. >>
Here we go again, assuming that being an artist means a whole bunch of
touchy-feely emotional mystical subjective crap, - a "gift" from above, not a
feat of engineering the mind/body connection. Fine of the senses through
training, practice and discipline of intense nature.
Music and the arts are measurable sciences. Numbers are part of that.
Integrated until nearly intuitive, yes, but always present.
The results are for the enjoyment and emotions, but the art itself is a
mechanical process, and obeys a body of laws or principles just like any
other technology.
Just because you don't understand them, don't assign mystic spiritual values
to those who do.
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