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KobeFlenderson t1_jclzlyc wrote

Reply to comment by Johannes--Climacus in Debates in Separating Art and Artist by adarsh_badri

I suggest you look into psychology. Your brain uses biases created through experience to create shortcuts so you don’t have to analyze everything you look at. That fluorescent light at the end of the hallway is rectangular. Even though it appears to be a trapezoid, your brain automatically registers that it’s a rectangle because of experience. You don’t have to analyze it for that to happen.

Your brain chooses how you perceive the world, and the best you can do is be aware it’s happening. Think about it like a colorblind person - the barn may be red, but that person will always see it a different color, no matter how aware they are that it’s not brown or gray or whatever.

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Johannes--Climacus t1_jcm85t8 wrote

This does not address anything I said.

The fact that your brain interprets sensory data does not tell us about what the affect of aestheticism has on your view of art (in fact, the latter presupposes the former). It’s like if I made a comment about literature, and you pointed out “well your eyes take in light, you know”.

If you “looked into psychology”, you’d understand that cognitive behavioral therapy, for instance, involves altering mental models which results in altered perceptions.

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KobeFlenderson t1_jcmcnxl wrote

What you’re suggesting is training your brain to replace one shortcut with another. Once your brain is conditioned, you have no control over the perception. You’re intentionally trolling Reddit for things to argue about with the limited knowledge you learned watching YouTube.

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Johannes--Climacus t1_jczi709 wrote

What you call a “shortcut” merely describes a model.

You accuse me of using YouTube knowledge, but I’m pursuing a masters in philosophy while you’re here saying “yes but have you considered that the mind uses schemas to process information”. Nobody doubted that and only someone who learned psychology on YouTube would think this is insightful

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KobeFlenderson t1_jczpbji wrote

>pursuing a masters in philosophy

This means as much as a hope, prayer, or wish. Wanting to accomplish something isn’t an accomplishment.

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Johannes--Climacus t1_jd0lql8 wrote

Anyone who touches grass knows that the common connotation is that affirmative steps have been taken. In this context, those steps take the form of graduate level courses

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