[Fis] Fwd: What is Art?

Thu Jan 22 07:20:24 CET 2026

Dear László,

emo-rationality and critical-discerning consciousness or
super-consciousness serve to: -architect or un-discover the economy of the
world or the world of the economy of living beings, humans and animals (at
least for now, excluding plants, although they are subjects of
phyto-sociology); -conserve-enhance and not pollute the inorganic world;
-conceive an economic Theo-human-ology or theo-human-logical economy. God
became human so that human beings could become God [Aracne, Rome, 2024].

Your “human spark” is a beautiful and valuable invention. Thank you.

Francesco.

Caro László,

emo-ra-zionalità e coscienza o super-coscienza critico-discernente servono
a: -architettare o s-coprire l’*economia del mondo* o il *mondo
dell’economia* degli esseri viventi umani e animali (almeno per ora
vegetali esclusi, sebbene siano soggetti di fito-sociologia);
conservare-valorizzare e non inquinare il mondo inorganico; -concepire
una *Teo-umano-logia
economica o economia teo-umano-logica. Dio sìè fatto umano affinché
l’essere umano possa diventare Dio* [Aracne, Roma, 2024].

La tua “scintilla umana” è una bella e pregevole invenzione. Grazie.

Francesco.

Il giorno mer 21 gen 2026 alle ore 01:17 Csáji László Koppány <
csaji.koppany en gmail.com> ha scritto:

> Dear John, Marcus, Louis, Eric, Mark, and all FiS colleagues,
> We have witnessed excellent argumentations that were both inspiring and
> thought provking. I am grateful to participate.
> I circulate around an easy question after all these considerations: how
> the cellars' cognitive functions, self-cognition, and consciousness relate
> to each other, and how "emotion" as a factor links to them. Theoretically,
> all living creatures differ from crystals, stones, fluid, or aeriform
> materials by having a kind of "decision-making"--an ability of "willing"
> that gives them a "plus".
> Nevertheless, this ability is not an art form; it is just a differentia
> specifica between living ones and those that exist without a
> decision-making gift (capability). Art seems to be a step further, which
> elevates the material environment to a level that could be called
> "super-consciousness", or something like that. Super-consciousness empowers
> us not only to shape the world but to imagine it in another way, and create
> "new realities"--in a way that would not be possible physically.
> This kind of imagination--that exceeds the animals' "rationality"
> (causability?), creativity, and communicative acts...
> Can we specify--and how can we?--such a "plus" (I called it a "human
> spark" in my initial paper), or is this evolutionary thesis just a delusion?
> Cheers,
>                László
>
> Mark Johnson <johnsonmwj1 en gmail.com> ezt írta (időpont: 2026. jan. 19.,
> H, 10:05):
>
>> Yes! Thank you Joe!
>>
>> On Mon, 19 Jan 2026 at 08:33, <joe.brenner en bluewin.ch> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear John,
>>>
>>> We have not talked to each other recently, but I follow your work with
>>> interest and wanted to applaud the last three lines of your 19.1 note: ... "the
>>> 'logic' of the Cosmos. Symbiogenesis is the mechanism by which life has
>>> acquired the logic of the Cosmos. In other words there is a continuum from
>>> the foundations of the Cosmos to life that is expressed in art."
>>>
>>> The image it evoked was that of my sculptor father, Michael Brenner,
>>> making a bust of me at age 10 in his studio in New York. He danced around
>>> his easel in a frenzy *(frénésie) *, chopping away at the emerging
>>> marble head, sweating and grunting. Art comes more easily to many, but I
>>> suggest that its becoming is always partly unconscious, an expression of
>>> the energetic foundations of existence.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Joe
>>>
>>> ------but ---- Message d'origine ----------
>>> De : JOHN TORDAY <jtorday en ucla.edu>
>>> À : fis <fis en listas.unizar.es>
>>> Date : 17.01.2026 22:58 CET
>>> Sujet : [Fis] What is Art?
>>>
>>>
>>> Dear FIS, I am of the opinion that art is an expression of
>>> consciousness, raising the question Art as to what consciousness is? I fell
>>> down this 'rabbit hole' twenty years ago, having performed a series of
>>> experiments to understand how and why Parathyroid Hormone-related Protein
>>> (PTHrP) is necessary for the formation of alveoli in the lung (Rubin
>>> LP, Kovacs CS, De Paepe ME, Tsai SW, Torday JS, Kronenberg HM. Arrested
>>> pulmonary alveolar cytodifferentiation and defective surfactant synthesis
>>> in mice missing the gene for parathyroid hormone-related protein. Dev Dyn.
>>> 2004 Jun;230(2):278-89)? The duplication of the PTHrP Receptor gene during
>>> the water-land transition amplified all of the vertebrate physiologic
>>> adaptations to land- lungs, kidneys, skeleton, skin- and since PTHrP is a
>>> stretch-sensitive gene, I tested the hypothesis that PTHrP mediated the
>>> vertebrate adaptation to the force of gravity. If cells are exposed to zero
>>> gravity they lose their differentiated phenotypes (i.e. they devolve), and
>>> when yeast are exposed to zero gravity they cannot conduct a calcium flux,
>>> meaning that they are unconscious. Moreover, human consciousness has been
>>> driven by bipedalism (Torday JS. A central theory of biology. Med
>>> Hypotheses. 2015 Jul;85(1):49-57), freeing our forelimbs for tool
>>> making, including language as a tool, and locomotion. Importantly, both
>>> language and locomotion are under control by the FoxP2 gene, so that
>>> positive selection pressure for FoxP2 would have coordinately stimulated
>>> language and locomotion, expressed through our hands and minds as art of
>>> all kinds- literature, painting, sculpture, music- in other words, art is a
>>> manifestation of our need to communicate with our environment and with
>>> other humans.
>>>
>>> Furthermore, all of the above is due to the evolution of homeostatic
>>> control of energy due to Symbiogenesis (Sagan, 1967), or the assimilation
>>> of factors in the environment that threaten homeostasis, including the
>>> elements in the Cosmos, the latter being an exaptation (Gould and Vrba,
>>> 1982) of Stellar Nucleosynthesis (Hoyle, 1946), or the serial chemical
>>> reaction of hydrogen and helium to form the stars, the elements being their
>>> byproducts in the exact order of their atomic masses as thec
>>> Your comments and criticisms are welcomed.
>>>
>>> Best, John
>>>
>>>
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>>
>> --
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