Good possibilities Andrew - impossible, perhaps, for us to even imagine as 'wet-ware'. I find nearly all official art dull already! I have tested a few undergraduates on what they recall of their 16 - 18 years in educational childminding and am sure I can build that into a fingernail chip. My aliens won't need school as all the jive we went through will be routinised to code. What will beauty be after you've seen a supernova close up? Pleasure after encounters with beings whose erogenous zones start a parsec away, after gender and reproduction as we know them are only know from fossil records?
On Sunday, 21 September 2014 11:53:50 UTC+1, andrew vecsey wrote: > > 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]> >>> To: [email protected] >>> 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]. >>> 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.
