Hilma af Klint’s abstract paintings pre-date Kandinsky and she is now, somewhat begrudgingly and belatedly, recognized as the first abstract artist. She was a mystic who claimed that many of her paintings, including her Paintings for the Altar, were channeled during seances. She was a follower of theosophy and her art was seen by the anthroposophist Rudolph Steiner who told her the world was not ready for her art.
Einstein, not a great mathematician by self admission, used his imagination to gain a profound insight into the reality of what became special relativity. Physicists today cannot understand how he made that
intuitive leap.
The most overarching understanding of quantum field theory is that everything is interconnected. Af Klint’s art substantiates poetically that transcendence and immanence are interconnected and essentially one.
No amount of computational development will enable AI to smell a rose or fall in love although it could simulate that experience and convince those pre-disposed to scientific materialism that the computer can become conscious.
I am a retired surgeon who was involved in starting one of the first healing centers in a full service hospital in the US. Among other profound experiences, doctors would tell me but not colleagues in their own specialties about ‘impossible’ cures of documented and witnessed spontaneous eradication of disease or traumatic deformity. Despite the evidence, they were unwilling to share the data with their colleagues due to the fear of loosing credibility.
I had people share NDEs where, for example, events witnessed by the unconscious patient lying in the hospital bed were corroborated by nurses down the hallway.
It is our pre-suppositions intimately connected to our sense of selves and maintained through our default mode networks that precludes us from experiencing these realities.
It will take a synthesis of multiple disciplines all pointing in the same direction to slowly generate change in our culture. Matt’s multiple disciplinary approach is exactly what we need. We all over-value what we know and undervalue what we don’t know. But as the polymath Michael Polanyi wrote: We can know more than we can tell.
Wonderful summary of how the Divine is embodied in our evolutionary development and how the human species is far from realizing its innate potential, potentials already prepared for us to unlock -- programmed in, if you will -- which our machines will never have (since engineers themselves are not yet aware). We need philosophers like you to bring further light to these vital (not just transcendental) matters. Thank you!
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Hilma af Klint’s abstract paintings pre-date Kandinsky and she is now, somewhat begrudgingly and belatedly, recognized as the first abstract artist. She was a mystic who claimed that many of her paintings, including her Paintings for the Altar, were channeled during seances. She was a follower of theosophy and her art was seen by the anthroposophist Rudolph Steiner who told her the world was not ready for her art.
Einstein, not a great mathematician by self admission, used his imagination to gain a profound insight into the reality of what became special relativity. Physicists today cannot understand how he made that
intuitive leap.
The most overarching understanding of quantum field theory is that everything is interconnected. Af Klint’s art substantiates poetically that transcendence and immanence are interconnected and essentially one.
No amount of computational development will enable AI to smell a rose or fall in love although it could simulate that experience and convince those pre-disposed to scientific materialism that the computer can become conscious.
I am a retired surgeon who was involved in starting one of the first healing centers in a full service hospital in the US. Among other profound experiences, doctors would tell me but not colleagues in their own specialties about ‘impossible’ cures of documented and witnessed spontaneous eradication of disease or traumatic deformity. Despite the evidence, they were unwilling to share the data with their colleagues due to the fear of loosing credibility.
I had people share NDEs where, for example, events witnessed by the unconscious patient lying in the hospital bed were corroborated by nurses down the hallway.
It is our pre-suppositions intimately connected to our sense of selves and maintained through our default mode networks that precludes us from experiencing these realities.
It will take a synthesis of multiple disciplines all pointing in the same direction to slowly generate change in our culture. Matt’s multiple disciplinary approach is exactly what we need. We all over-value what we know and undervalue what we don’t know. But as the polymath Michael Polanyi wrote: We can know more than we can tell.
Wonderful summary of how the Divine is embodied in our evolutionary development and how the human species is far from realizing its innate potential, potentials already prepared for us to unlock -- programmed in, if you will -- which our machines will never have (since engineers themselves are not yet aware). We need philosophers like you to bring further light to these vital (not just transcendental) matters. Thank you!