Art Seeking Understanding I: Foundations | Episode 2001 | Closer To Truth

[@LeeJamison100]

I quite like this initiative of Templeton. Art first started creating me when I was not yet two years old and it became necessary to draw, to lay out in the shared/negotiated space of the real, the entity in my mind of a Volkswagen Beetle. My mother saved the drawing and it is stored somewhere in papers today. I remember how driven I was BY THE IMAGE as I drew it, how it was like a living thing. In nominal, unthinking, language one may say "I am an artist", but the more meaningful statement is that the artist wells up, almost volcanically, to express itself with me.

[@jamesbentonticer4706]

What a great new episode. Been looking forward to these for a while!

[@demirkabylbayev9942]

Powerful comeback - a great choice of a new dimension to be explored.

[@maxphilly]

Art is a form to express understanding and points of view of understanding.

[@carlito8003]

Art is a tool of understanding ,we could use it visualize a concept where by way of art an idea can be understood

[@ikaeksen]

We are in a time when the heart want to take over the conscious part of the brain, dont let it, just let it rule over the subconscious, give it all of it, but never ever give it the consciousness, cus there its best to be all other than feelings, other than rational feelings ofc..

[@owencampbell4947]

Involving more creations of the mind, is it not like tapping in the dark? one might be able to recognize a structure, a crack or just an imagination? It's the never ending adaption, evolving to new levels, fort on. But the question is still not answered, only filled with more concepts.

[@mikestewart505]

Some, and I think maybe a lot, of mentation occurs before conscious awareness. At the very least, I think art may be a window into those processes.

[@makhalid1999]

These are gonna be some good 3 months

[@kallianpublico7517]

"..new way of knowing.." Is that what subjectivity is? Knowing without concensus.

[@TheNoblot]

ART ECONOMICAL MARKET looking at a problem from a different point of view providing reason perception logic & thinking the possibility to bring new & different solutions to problems that function as a system loop/ by adopting a different logic addressing the consequences of a problem rather than the problem itself can in the short/ long term bring new insights & understanding, giving a pause to the eternal circle of mistakes that plagues the system which functions on a perpetual creative destruction, from world war 2 to Marshall plan from the destruction of Ukraine to its reconstruction. I myself artist painter hope to gather something of that nature for the awakening of climate havoc and how perception is able to change behavior, from the inside out. Giving art mental representation a different meaning approach & distance it from the common economical art market of creative destruction.

[@brydonjesse]

Art is kind of like the phisical form of philosophy, but by madmen :) because we don't really know what we are getting at until its done really. Thought on canvas and clay

[@ggstylz]

After 30 years of arts, I’ve never been more confused.

[@RolandHuettmann]

Creative art could be, but must not be a way to higher understanding. Especially in music, states of awareness can change, widen, bring love, joy. A machine, AI, cannot do it. I completely reject such notion. With understanding we always relate to consciousness. There is no other understanding than in and through consciousness.

[@quantumfineartsandfossils2152]

he has a good grasp it is what I call #FieldFiguration in my case my algorithms are pattern psychology + pathology (disease) + athletics + nature (outdoors year round) + energy independence (like Bradbury no car) + + + etc #StatisticalIdentity creates alerts with matches parameterization in #ImaginaryMomentum 6:00 "forces like love values like gratitude spiritual realities" causality outside of time passive wave sensors being consciously careful using focus effort patterns being close but not too close at a distance but not too far away formalism in adaptation abuse is not work work creates space People actually do not like to be around each other all the time wolves are like this coyotes then they congregate celebrate other species have super rich wide scopes commitment to all their relationships it is provable 24/7 they document all this in their environment via territories #FieldFiguration is the same

[@itsgottob1207]

People think to hard about life, my opinion is the best thing to do is live as much as possible before we die and don't try to solve life's mysteries

[@quantumfineartsandfossils2152]

@@itsgottob1207 they don't think hard enough hard thinkers get me off and make me wet I admire hard thinkers I am a hard thinker junkie ill risk my life defending hard thinkers

[@quantumfineartsandfossils2152]

@@itsgottob1207 I think you are cool anyways though :)*

[@renaissanceman5847]

Spend about $40,000 on the arts in college for 5 years to expand your perspective and alters your understanding of reality... or spend a few dollars on a hit of acid and get the same effect in a few hours

[@MrBoybergs]

With the added benefit of avoiding all the pretentious bollocks. Ive been watching this fantastic series for years and this is the first time its ever annoyed me.

[@renaissanceman5847]

@@MrBoybergs and to think these people get paid 6 figures to make up this load of BS.

[@zamar2158]

Remove the inhibitory processes of the brain et voila. And better because of an astonishing lack (ha ha ) pretentious mumbo jumbo

[@sneakcr3144]

@@renaissanceman5847 Bullshit?Cuz you are incapable of understanding how they are approaching this? And no, taking acid wont help anyone decipher how the mechanism wich creates art works, it will just enhance artistic potential, but not give you an explanation of the process.And those people get waay less money on their research than neuroscientists who try to explain consciousness by rewiring the brain on repeat.

[@renaissanceman5847]

@@sneakcr3144 ... on second thought, perhaps some should spend 40 grand on english, grammar and spelling.

[@evaadam3635]

Neuroscientific techniques that limits itself to material inquiry can not solve aesthetic cognitive wonders whose answers belong to the world beyond the physical. Art is a product of man's strong desire in trying to materialize all the beautiful & horrible things he feels, that he knows not where it came from, so for people to see, feel, and to understand who can give some answers.... and some times the art can reveal some truths that the artist, who created it, was not even aware. No one can understand why an art can do this if you have no faith in the existence of God, Heaven, & Hell, where Heaven was once our Original Home before we ended in Hell and now on Earth for a chance of salvation.. Heaven is where we experienced the kind of happiness and joy that we can not find here in our physical existence but can only express and convey some of it through creating an art.... and Hell is where we experience pain and suffering after we fell from Heaven for losing faith in God's love. All our pasts were blocked from us so for a chance to regain our faith without knowing God so for us to return Home, this is why some of us can only feel some remnants of our pasts that we can only convey through creating arts. I BELIEVE.

[@mikel4879]

Redundant futility!

[@BradHolkesvig]

Psalm 97 7: All worshipers of images are put to shame, who make their boast in worthless idols; all gods bow down before him. Deuteronomy 4: 8: “You shall not make for yourself a graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is on the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; 9: you shall not bow down to them or serve them; for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me, but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments. Deuteronomy 7 25: The graven images of their gods you shall burn with fire; you shall not covet the silver or the gold that is on them, or take it for yourselves, lest you be ensnared by it; for it is an abominations to the Lord your God. And you shall not bring an abominable thing into your house, and become accursed like it; you shall utterly detest and abhor it; for it is an accursed thing.

[@theconsciousjunkyard8154]

Woah this is cool, did you write this?

[@adeleservice9638]

I am a Co creator with the Creator…… through inspired creativity.

[@BradHolkesvig]

@@adeleservice9638 Everything that you have built with your human hands was already created and that information is called the Beast. When you put yourself at the level of our Creator, it means you have absolutely no eternal wisdom to understand how you are created.

[@adeleservice9638]

Well I guess I should stop breathing and living my God given life and blindly follow your perspective which makes no sense to me.

[@adeleservice9638]

I think that would lead to insanity.

[@manz1960]

I’ve been a fan of CTT for a number of years and the quality of the show continues to impress me. My best buddy is a top executive in the music industry and I pursue film development. Art is a key portal to the Divine, The Creator and the deeper and longer people stay on that path of discovery - it will come into focus like a gorgeous sunrise emerging from a dark horizon.

[@0-by-1_Publishing_LLC]

Art is the closest we can come to comprehending the birth of the universe. An artist can conceive a sculpture that is held solely within their consciousness, and then reveal it in physical form on the other side.

[@NikkiTrudelle]

Art is gives rise and motivation to the emergence of new ways to think. It could be that humans tell stories in the same way that bees dance to communicate food locations, humans tell stories to share insight into imagination Stories are like a dance of the imagination

[@robertedwards4918]

We are journalist some will be the architect others spokespeople Do not underestimate your part in hidtory

[@robertedwards4918]

Be organic and origanel

[@philociraptor6751]

Thanks for this 20th season ! By the way, is the 1st season to be released anytime soon ?

[@CloserToTruthTV]

Yes! The 1st season will be released after Season 20.

[@wisedupearly3998]

Art is designed/structured to engage perception. Not cognitive understanding, well not immediately, but rather the unconscious pattern matching functions of the brain. when I listen to classical music, especially Mozart Clarinet Concerto in A major, K.622, I can 'feel' my brain responding to the music and the response is positive because the music is so well structured. Repetitive enough to engage with enough variation to raise interest. The argument is that the mental pattern matching performed to process music, painting, dance, etc. is also used to understand the reality around us.

[@projectmalus]

Art might be a way to develop different venues of synesthesia. There was a Russian man who saw language in all 5 senses, colors, kinetics, hearing, taste and smell, but couldn't grasp abstract concepts. What if one could overcome that? Perhaps the structure of proteins could be unfolded or other brilliant leaps in carbon structure for instance, by being able to manipulate such complex models in one's head.

[@projectmalus]

@D.J. W Yes, it would seem to me that there are two types of movement, a linear segment adding of imperfect objects (displayed in culture) and another sort of participatory object (like a knowledge pool) that can wax and wane.

[@grumreapur]

The art historian mentions cave paintings, but art is also sculptural form. Chimpanzees have been found to use the same shaped rock as a primitive tool to crush insects, nuts and berries, but the same rock is seen used in different chimpanzee groups going back 10,000 years. Our ancestors on the other hand had something go off in their consciousness which the chimpanzee has not, creativity. One of our primal ancestors could have seen their contemporaries using that rock, then seen a twine and a stick and then the spear was born. On and on this adaption to newer things lead to what we have now. So I'd argue that the cave paintings are just the first recorded paintings, not the first piece of art

[@fearitselfpinball8912]

“Are there other ways of knowing… I accept the possibility but I do not trust my capacity to discern what may be real from what is purely wished.” This is a restatement of the enlightenment idea that our ‘subjectivity’ can distort/deceive our view of “objective reality”. Optical illusions are the classic example. I am the only person I know who has who has made the claim that ‘objectivity can distort’. Particularly, it can distort a communication. For example, if you take a romantic John Williams piece, the (communicated) “meaning” of it _is_ the (subjective) effect of it on a human being. More technically, the interaction between a conscious human subject and the music itself. If you were strictly to be objective (removing the human subject altogether) and analyzing pages of printed-out frequencies from oscilloscopes (ignoring the felt effect) you would “miss” the meaning. You would miss the whole thing… What someone was trying tell you via all of who you are. Some things are communicated to us in a way that _are aimed at us as human subjects_ and it is our attempts to remove ourselves (as subjects) from the information/experiential quality of the thing that actually distorts it. Less formally, imagine your overly analytic friend who is falling in love. He is lost in cerebral considerations but perhaps would do better to navigate _with and within_ rather than “outside of” his own humanity. We are in this maze of strict materialism… Is our subjectivity _not_ real also? (It’s a different and more fundamental question than whether it perceives objects as they are). Why should we presume it is anything but as ‘real’ as materials? We’re again up against this question, not of whether objectivity is sometimes helpful but whether it is ‘comprehensive’… and we know it isn’t. We are the proof.

[@veronicaalessandrello1022]

I had an experience related to this talk. It’s in my Chanel. Large scale bubbles bursting vs Meteorite Impact craters.

[@samosa9488]

Hey closer to truth It would be great if you added donation methods to your channels and link them to your videos I have spent many an hour enjoying your content and would like to donate

[@jamesruscheinski8602]

Is art a scientific attempt at existence, what brings reality together? Can there be an epistemology of ontology, or only the fact of ontology? Maybe have knowledge of existence as brute fact; understand existence through experience / consciousness?

[@areebapirzada4714]

We need an episode about classic literature and congnition.

[@soubhikmukherjee6871]

Quite refreshing to watch this.

[@SonnenbergzuFu]

Closer to truth... well, painters see more details... musicians hear more nuances etc.. Is truth the ability to be aware of more informations? Like meditation or so? Movies are a little bit like therapeutical experiences, but (as David Mamet states for example) you give the characters room and good screenwriters don't "tell" stuff - like a simulation in an environment with an incident... Good movie characters have a life on their own so to speak... So, there might be constellations of experiences in movies, humans will never experience in real life - but where is the border between truth and lies? If we take Schleiermacher, we have a kind of truth always infront of us in real life... But these kind of experiences get holistic very fast... Our DNA has art patterns, looks nice... Hmmm, perhaps you can use art, to calculate with, draw lines in new kind of dimensions and solve problems you can't solve with common mathematics... But how does a line or multiplication look like in "art" and when is it just decoration? *justThinkingLoudly 😄☀️🌻

[@bltwegmann8431]

I think he’s running out of topics.

[@B.S...]

In every cry of every Man, In every Infants cry of fear, In every voice: in every ban, The mind-forg’d manacles I hear [W. Blake]

[@MortezaHosseini71]

good

[@CGMaat]

Thank you master teacher of question we all ask but have no experts to give us answers . You really lift my perceptions . We are all on this quest like Don Q , get on our own frail horse and try to right the wrongs, love pure chaste from afar- though we might never meet dulcinea - WE CAN LIVE BY UTMOST ART! OR like the noiseless spider; musing, venturing, seeking - throwing our GLOSSEMERE thread until the bridge is made, be it by dream,art, thought, or just attempting our weaving , our own pattern - a day of utmost - in any form we may act or perceive , maybe it just is a drawing, a kind action, an utmost thought- it IS POSSIBLE - THE LOFTIER IMAGE- Next talk “ WHAT EXACTLY IS AN IMAGE?” What exactly is meant by made in the image of something that is NOTHING or NO IMAGE? I know there are other lectures you have done on QUINTESSENTIAL NOTHING!

[@jeffwilliams6681]

Had you read Heidegger and Nietzsche instead of walled off in the ghetto of analytic philosophy, you wouldn’t be so naive about the primacy of esthetic knowledge.

[@spiritualawareness7736]

Art is the interpretation of the perception of reality of the individual ARTIST, that means that For example a painting painted by an artist may have a deep meaning for that same artist but a simpler meaning or have no meaning for another person or different artist!

[@vidtrax662]

All forms of Art create an openness that leads to knowledge and wisdom.

[@alanbrady420]

You should do a video about construct universe theory 🤓 that’s a lovely setting in today’s upload 🤩

[@jamesconner8275]

This all seems a little 'sketchy' to me. 🤔

[@sneakcr3144]

If you dont have artistic inclination, ofc it would seem sketchy, but I can tell you that something different is happening to the brain when art is created.

[@shayanshojaei4383]

This episode was fantastic

[@ingenuity168]

Thank you! 🌷

[@quantumfineartsandfossils2152]

Literacy is catastrophic now this is because everyone has been conditioned that spectacle kitch illustration fashion is art most people have no indigenous or fine art nature body mind computer is art literacy this is what he is talking about

[@motherofallemails]

People don't have artist paintings or sculptures anymore, it's tragic that the west is getting so uncultured. The explosion of the art scene in the 20th century cultivated abstraction in human perception, and imagination, it's a great shame that it was so socially disconnected from the scientific community. Interestingly, a B.A. degree in mathematics used to fall under the arts category (bachelor of arts)..