I do admit it's a great source of contentment, it's easy to relax when you're in that frame of mind. Meaning and purpose are imposed on something when it's recognized, imposed by the recognizer, they infer these properties for themselves. If we see something sharp and spikey like a spear, we think its purpose is to puncture something, that's a natural conclusion, but the spikey thing might just be an icicle that's formed, or a shadow, or anything. That's veering a bit off topic though, not sure where I was going with that. I agree though that there doesn't have to be a point to something to make it worth doing. You can always retroactively attribute a point to it, if you wanted to.
It makes you wonder if our creative urges, the desire to draw something or make something, and have it seen by others, is in a simple way just our tribute to the existence, just sheer, plain existence, of the world we perceive around us. We want to emulate that and give others the same feeling looking at something of ours, that they had when they saw a sunset, or thought about the solar system, or noticed the way water ripples on a lake.
Weird how nobody wonders what maths is for or how it got there or whether it's right or not, they just accept that it is there. I wonder what it'd be like if there was an area of the planet where maths was different, where time went a bit sideways and gravity got slower.
Alright I'm just totally rambling now, lol, I'll stop filling your Livejournal with philosophical blather. ^_^;
It makes you wonder if our creative urges, the desire to draw something or make something, and have it seen by others, is in a simple way just our tribute to the existence, just sheer, plain existence, of the world we perceive around us. We want to emulate that and give others the same feeling looking at something of ours, that they had when they saw a sunset, or thought about the solar system, or noticed the way water ripples on a lake.
Weird how nobody wonders what maths is for or how it got there or whether it's right or not, they just accept that it is there. I wonder what it'd be like if there was an area of the planet where maths was different, where time went a bit sideways and gravity got slower.
Alright I'm just totally rambling now, lol, I'll stop filling your Livejournal with philosophical blather. ^_^;
-John
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