Rational art for your aliens would probably be something functional, beautiful, clever and thought provoking. Like puzzles and puns and clever ironies.
On Saturday, September 20, 2014 5:36:47 PM UTC+2, archytas wrote: > > One has to wonder what 'rational art' might be. And also whether alien > rationality would be anything like our faux version of the dispassionate, > objective voice. > > On Thursday, 18 September 2014 22:38:43 UTC+1, Allan Heretic wrote: >> >> The alien craft streaked passed the poetic mind imagining its own >> fantasy. The sounds of its passing wee masked by the deafening roar of >> megawatt amplifiers and scanty clothed people wiggling in uncontrollable >> movement they call dance.. Well done aliens. >> >> Allan >> Living Soul >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: andrew vecsey <[email protected] <javascript:>> >> To: [email protected] <javascript:> >> Sent: Thu, 18 Sep 2014 10:06 PM >> Subject: Mind's Eye Re: alien scrutiny and Facilitator's 'artist' >> >> I do not think that your aliens know what art is. They are too rational >> to know and appreciate art. They missed the poetry and the music in our >> language and they will also miss the beauty, imagination, creativity and >> meaning and worth in our of art. >> >> On Thursday, September 18, 2014 4:06:18 PM UTC+2, archytas wrote: >>> >>> Aliens......... visited only as an energy source and question on origin >>> and development. Leaving space-time led to new qualities of life with >>> machine rationality, compassion, pleasure, purpose and conscious >>> development. Visiting our galaxy to work on a dark flow tap of vacuum >>> energy using power from supernova explosions near the Milky Way core, they >>> also intend two-way communication with Earth. We have been monitored for >>> centuries through dark field scanning. Much speculation and ironic mirth >>> on the size of the human brain ensued - so big with so little achievement. >>> Human language communicates little other than deception and gossip. >>> >>> The story goes on. Do such aliens confront something like Facilitator >>> as an artist? >>> >> -- >> >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> ""Minds Eye"" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected] <javascript:>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
