<div dir="ltr">"elimination of commercialism in science"<div><br></div><div>YES. Critical. </div><div>With most of the best new scientific discoveries published behind paywalls</div><div>science has become a rich person's enterprise with high thresholds to entry</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 8:27 AM Mariusz Stanowski <<a href="mailto:stanowskimariusz@wp.pl">stanowskimariusz@wp.pl</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p>Dear Pedro and collegues,</p>
<p>I agree that "the historical evolution of art becomes a
fascinating mirror of social evolution itself. Human evolution
like other phenomena of reality is subject to cyclical changes.
Currently we have a crisis in development/evolution, which has
taken the form of a postmodern/neo-Marxist cultural revolution.
Among other things, it consists in the deconstruction of all
values, meanings, and emerging structures-ideas (in the name of
avoiding totalitarianism) with simultaneous dependence on
ideology. <br>
</p>
<p>As a consequence, it leads to destructive chaos and degradation
consisting in elimination of intellectual diversity and creative
freedom. In such a situation, economic (globalism) or military
(Ukraine) power determines what the world should look like.
Cultural revolutionists have also succeeded in controlling art. I
was at the Venice Biennale 4 years ago and saw Marx's Capital
being read at the same hour/place every day. <br>
</p>
<p>How can we fight the crisis? In my opinion, just raising
awareness and describing the crisis is not enough (there are many
publications describing the current crisis). We need systemic
changes (e.g. elimination of commercialism in science) and, above
all, we should propose some positive alternative that will release
our intellectual potential and creative possibilities.<br>
</p>
<p>Best regards</p>
<p>Mariusz<br>
</p>
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<div> dniu 2022-04-26 o 14:20, Pedro C.
Marijuan pisze:<br>
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<div>Dear Mariusz,</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>Beyond philosophical nuances, one of
the most intriguing aspects of art would concern its
relationship with the intellectual & cultural ethos of each
epoch.</div>
<div>Art, stemming from inner drives of
almost unfathomable origins, seems to provide a compensation for
some of the absences in the daily life of citizens (a mostly
urban phenomenon).</div>
<div>The observer, or listener, gets some
of the intellective/emotional contents emitted by the art
producer, and that's satisfying for the permanent search for
novelty that characterizes our species in civilized life
regimes.</div>
<div>Your polysemic use of "contrast" is
well adapted to discuss the above, I think, both in the art
object and in the receiver whole appreciation. <br>
</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>The curious point is that the
historical evolution of art becomes a fascinating mirror of
social evolution itself. Thinking on Western art (classic,
medieval, renaissance, neoclassic, modern...), how contents and
styles have been evolved with the mentality of each epoch....
Reminding about "media", It would echo what McLuhan was saying
about means of communication: every new media alters the psychic
equilibrium and forces a mental readaptation of the individual
within the whole communication mosaic. <br>
</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>Coming to our times, How far could go
the present "deconstruction" of art, seemingly reduced to
presentation of brute "novelty"?</div>
<div> Is there a way back to art contents
satisfying the appetite for intellective/emotional contents?</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>To complicate things for the worse,
some portions of "public art" seem to have been swallowed by the
superultimate "cancelation culture".</div>
<div>Is there anything left uncensored of
the cultural & artistic past? <br>
</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>I will appreciate your comments &
opinions --and of the list colleagues,</div>
<div>Best--Pedro<br>
</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>El 26/04/2022 a las 9:41, Mariusz
Stanowski escribió:<br>
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<div><font size="4">Dear Joseph,</font></div>
<div><font size="4"><br>
</font></div>
<div><font size="4">Thank you for your
clarification, however I was only referring to Cartesian
dualism. <br>
</font></div>
<div><font size="4">You also write that
"the best art is neither totally realistic or abstract but
has features of both".</font></div>
<div><font size="4"> My understanding is
that there is no absolutely abstract or realistic art at
all. In the history of <br>
</font></div>
<div><font size="4">art we had both
realism (Courbet) and abstractionism (Kandinsky).<br>
</font></div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div><font size="4">Best regards</font></div>
<div><font size="4">Mariusz<br>
</font></div>
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<div>W dniu 2022-04-24 o 16:06, <a href="mailto:joe.brenner@bluewin.ch" target="_blank">joe.brenner@bluewin.ch</a>
pisze:<br>
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<font size="3">Dear Mariusz,</font>
<div><font size="3"><br>
</font></div>
<div><font size="3">Please let me try this first rapid
response, without re-presenting my entire approach. I
understand your desire to avoid dualism, but dualism is a
part of physics, of our world. There is thus "bad"
dualism, which brings in invidious distinctions and
separations. "Good" dualism recognizes the fundamental
difference between what is (primarily) actual and
(primarily) potential, as well as the movement from one to
the other, and between many other real pairs.</font></div>
<div><font size="3"><br>
</font></div>
<div><font size="3">In my logic, ontological and
epistemological entities are in any event not totally
distinct, but <i>some</i> share <i>some</i> of one
another's properties, as do parts and wholes and so on,
without conflation.</font></div>
<div><font size="3"><br>
</font></div>
<div><font size="3">The dualism of electrostatic charge and
magnetic polarity are real and influence the way we exist
and feel neurologically, and cognitively. Another example
is what is called colloquially "up" and "down" nuclear
spin, and there is some thought that some sub-atomic
particles are self-dual. I have even suggested that a form
of self-duality may exist at cognitive levels of reality. </font></div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div><font size="3">As I stated above, the best art is neither
totally realistic or abstract but has features of both.
Perhaps the best strategy is to keep an open mind on the
subject or perhaps, like some sets, a closed-open (clopen)
mind.</font></div>
<div><font size="3"><br>
</font></div>
<div><font size="3">Best,</font></div>
<div><font size="3">Joseph<br>
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<div> Dear Joseph, </div>
<div> <br>
</div>
<div> You've written: "such as
information processes, has both an ontic and an
epistemic component" </div>
<div> <br>
</div>
If we introduce a distinction between ontic and epistemic
then we are assuming a dualistic view in advance, which,
for example, I am not in favor of.
<div> <br>
</div>
<div> Best regards </div>
<div> <br>
</div>
<div> Mariusz <br>
</div>
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