I finally understand Tine Wilde

[gusl]

In Amsterdam, I met someone who was doing a PhD in logic, and wanted her thesis to be an art project.

Now I sort of understand what she's onto. It has to do with the way we conceptualize the world. I can sort of see how this idea can be turned into art, e.g. there is the ABC-135 illusion, in which a shape is either a 3 or a B, depending on the context.

Because we can never obtain a total, complete overview of our language, philosophical confusions and misunderstandings can arise.

i.e. paradoxes as puns.


Since Gestalt perception is something that can be trained, I have previously had the idea of filling a PowerPoint presentation with some simple polygon-like shapes as background images, not to be consciously noticed... and at the end of the talk, putting these images together in the foreground, in such a way that people who unconsciously saw them during the talk will see something that people just walking in won't. I'm not sure if or how it could be made to work.

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[selfishgene.livejournal.com]

Sweet idea about the polygons - kind of subliminal training.