Jonathan Anderson - Aesthetic Cognitivism III: Meaning and Implications

Aesthetic Cognitivism is a theory about the arts as sources of understanding. What are its potential conclusions and consequences? Will art become a subset of science? Or can art see what science cannot? Where and how far can art take us?



Jonathan Anderson is an artist, art critic, and associate professor of art at Biola University, where he has been teaching since 2006.


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[adamtabl]

One of the better interviewees in the focus on art and Anderson has some great

[kallianpublico]

Can one see "the whole of the moon"? Ignorance is the foil of all that lives and acts and remembers.
Whether we fight cancer or the canvas and paint or the bases of linear algebra, we fight against ignorance in one form or another.
Our memory is art and science and philosophy and religion and evolution all tied up in one. Unwinding those twisted, intertwined knots 🪢 gives a brief impression of understanding called meaning. This brief relaxing of tension can be used to impress others but other knots remain.
What we are searching for is the key to unraveling the whole thing. The one or few meanings that encompasses and leads to all the other meanings. Is this a way out, or a way through? Journey's end or another journey: a personal journey?

[jamesruscheinski]

Does art include the relationship of the artist? The causal relationships in the art develop from the choice of the artist?

[Robinson]

Art is particulars. Knowledge is universals. Hence the problem in the difference

Humans have no problem in perceiving particulars. Humans have problems in describing the experience of those particulars in words of universals

[giorgioarmati]

The deep meditation made even during a simple walk, with which is possible call need memories or experimented past sensation or emotion.

Regard by Giorgio Armati

[grybnyx]

That was utterly absurd. He seemed genuinely taken aback when Lawrence asked him about the implications of implementing his conceptual framework in the real world. That non-sensical word salad of intellectual self-pleasuring got him a PhD, I suppose.

[Onaquest]

I am an artist, I watch an infinite amount of philosophical, scientific, Nature documentaries and engineering among the many input levels of intake and uptake. Some are provoking, some are silly. How about asking an artist what, when, who, where is art? Art is more complex that all theses disciplines because for one thing it encompasses them all. I am not trolling, just sometimes I am compelled to reply, to this regurgitations of nothingness pawned off as deep physics. Anytime a question is asked - first reply is - perhaps a better question is....b.s. misdirection and truly zero defining wisdom here - Nothing is more soul searching, gut wrenching, and complex as the arts: visual, dance, performing, acting.... bare you soul AND SEE.

[Noorlatgamer]

First to watch and comment! Interesting video.

[Homelessbillionaire]

A Woman With A Voice Is By Definition, A Strong Woman.

[Clancydaenlightened]

Don't ya think 1.21 gigatons is enough energy to either blow up/ vaporize an asteroid/comet or at least change its trajectory?

[johnpayne]

As a scientist, is it so? was my guide
As an engineer/physician, does it work? took over
As an artist, does it speak? drove me
Though related, these motivations are distinct and are often at odds
In my view, aesthetic cognition offers another contemplative practice, not a paradigm shift

[stevecoley]

X-Files
"The perception of beauty is a moral test." Henry David Thoreau. This is the real IQ test. This test also determines if one is human.

Light and truth (love) cause vampires (greed) great pain and suffering. That's why the words compassion, understanding, society (socialism), community (communism), "care for all" and "green new deal" cause the capitalist counting corpses that rule US such misery.

But the words sanction, starve, torture, murder and bomb are encouraged. Because these ugly words suck the joy out of humans with their ignorance (hate).

The hostile evangelical vampires (greed) are inhumane be they are not human. The capitalist counting corpses commit crimes against humanity because they are not human.

Like bats that fly around in the darkness of caves...vampires (greed) are blind and cannot see the ignorance of transforming heaven (peace) into hell (war). The capitalist counting corpses are also blind and cannot see the ignorance of destroying the planet.

The evangelical monsters are extremely "desperate" to control a darkship called the Whitehouse. Because working in the dark to suck the joy out of life and destroy the planet is the only way that the loveless, lifeless parasites can survive and thrive.

It's also how the hostile alien invaders keep their human capital (cattle) corralled.

Unlike earthling poets, artists, musicians, mystics, human beings and creators of joy...the capitalist counting corpses that rule US can't create harmony (real intelligence) because vampires (greed) are ignorant (dead).

Vampires (greed) who suck the joy out of life have joined the zombies who eat the futures of their children.

Zombie Apocalypse is here and happening now.

Question. Why are the evangelical counting corpses using the bible as a springboard to perform somersaults to do the exact opposite of "love their neighbors" and "treat others like they want to be treated"?

Answer. This us sick. Because these simple concepts are too far out there to grasp for vampires and zombies.

[bio]

he already realized that he is not going to get a proper answer to his questions :/

[maxwellsimoes]

He believes art arent conected with knowledge in reality . It absurd because he minds arent show up how he denies knowing from are paint. As he not shows how figuret it out he ergues concern art are pseud Science. In the words he knows not concern brains declines knowing from are in the conscieness. It is ridiculus opinion from baseless speculating concern are.

[alvarofranco]

There is an awkwardness to this video, it seems that Jonathan Anderson is being intimidated by RLK. Nevertheless, this contentious dynamics between both seemed to have added something positive to the content of what was being discussed, with RLK pushing Jonathan to answer very difficult questions. It was very dialectic, let me thinking a lot about how the way we perceive life is related to the way we perceive a piece of art and vice-versa.

[jamesgardner]

Nothing here Robert... Find another guest.... Brother James 🙏