ART POST!

The English poet John Keats wrote, "What is truth is beauty and what is beauty is truth." I want you to think of three "things:"

I consider a painting such as the Starry Night by Van Gogh to be a beautiful piece of art. It took countless hours crafting it and it posses the view of the most riveting and inspiring thing in the world, the sky. the sky itself drives me forward in this painting littered with brilliant stars.

The most beautiful thing that isn't art is the sky itself. the sky is a vast ocean of nothingness covered by clouds that drift by carelessly. i always enjoy gazing at the clouds when i am tired or in need of a break. although it is beautiful it is not art. Art requires work and time spent for the purpose of making something more beautiful but the sky was simply given to us with all of its glory.

                 I don't consider trash art beautiful however i do recognize that someone somewhere wasted time trying to make     their trash beautiful which is how i define art. i cannot call this inspiring or moving. i can only call this repulsive or poorly spent time. I do respect that people are trying to be unique or obscure but there are many more sanitary methods to be different.

Galileo Trial

The way that the mathematician and the philosopher have decided to act is completely understandable because Galileo is telling everything they know about the solar system is wrong. This is comparable to telling someone that their girl/boyfriend who they have been with for 5 years has been cheating on them from the very beginning. their first reaction is disbelief, then anger. I would simply point out that Galileo had evidence and that they cant deny solid evidence even if they desperately want to ignore it for the purpose of protecting their fantasy world.

Incognito Review

I liked Incognito I found it to be a very interesting book, it is however a book i never plan on reading again unless i plan on further analyzing it. I think Eagleman tried to show that people are not in control of their actions and in some situations cannot even be held responsible for what they do, because of their mental defects. i would like to point out that at the end of the book i believe Eagleman either changed his point of view or simply set the book up to make it look like he takes a neutral position. I cant decide which position i want to take in the actually debate however i am definitely leaning towards Eagleman's original position, but i cant back my decision with any hard reasoning. It is most likely because Eagleman supported it for a much longer time. After the creation of this post i believe i have decided that Eagleman's original belief is far more believable and im siding with that. I feel that if the brain is a separate creature that controls what we do i feel that there is a greater power driving me, you could probably relate this to religion on a much smaller scale. I would definitely recommend this book to all my friends who were intelectual enough to comprehend and enjoy this book.