Which says everything we need to know about the value of your judgement.Originally Posted by prickly_pete
Which says everything we need to know about the value of your judgement.
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Yep, that sounds pretty plausible to me.I submit that this Wilson entity is in fact a bot being trained for upcoming Turing tests. (That is to say, its responses are machine generated and then submitted by its creator.) The strategy of answering complex passages with terse, quasi-paradoxical snippets is a common strategy those who program bots employ to distract humans from an egregious dearth of relevant content. It is quite likely, given Wilson's chronic toadying, that the bot's programmer is in fact the very person who began this thread. The person submitting in the name of Wilson is part of the development team for this bit of software.
With such pearls of wisdom as the assertion that Hitler and Walt Disney are akin in wickedness.Really? I think Wilson is probably the most intelligent person on these boards to be perfectly honest.
“Yesterday's rose endures in its name, we hold empty names.”
― Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose
Does art serve any purpose? Does it not sin? Does it never err? I uphold art as a privilege precisely because it rarely abuses my trust.
It is an end in itself, together with other aspects of the liberal arts. The purpose of any other occupation is to provide for more means to appreciate the latter.
See what I'm talking about; what does this mean?Does art serve any purpose? Does it not sin? Does it never err? I uphold art as a privilege precisely because it rarely abuses my trust.
“Yesterday's rose endures in its name, we hold empty names.”
― Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose
It means that art is usually something that doesn't lie or deceive.See what I'm talking about; what does this mean?
It means that art is usually something that doesn't lie or deceive.
Who on earth told you that? The very word "ART" is related to "artifice" and "artificial" while in literature one speaks of "fiction" and "fables". Art is full of beautiful lies. I've always loved this one:
Bonnard painted any number of paintings of his wife, Marthe, bathing. This magical painting of Marthe floating in a field of glittering stars... like a Byzantine mosaic... was painted when his wife was already in her 60s.
Truth?
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I've been thinking the same thing. Not that he's a bot but that it's one person with multiple accounts.
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Really? Art always shows things exactly the way they are?It means that art is usually something that doesn't lie or deceive.
“Yesterday's rose endures in its name, we hold empty names.”
― Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose
Truth.It means that art is usually something that doesn't lie or deceive.
Who on earth told you that? The very word "ART" is related to "artifice" and "artificial" while in literature one speaks of "fiction" and "fables". Art is full of beautiful lies. I've always loved this one:
Bonnard painted any number of paintings of his wife, Marthe, bathing. This magical painting of Marthe floating in a field of glittering stars... like a Byzantine mosaic... was painted when his wife was already in her 60s.
Truth?
Looks quite like fantasy or fiction to me.
Beware of the man with just one book. -Ovid
The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.- Mark Twain
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Can you not read? I said usually.
And there is no truth to fiction?
yes ... it helps us to live better
I've always found that Truth, capitalized, is found in any piece of art. She may have been in her 60s at the time, but he painted her as he felt and digested her essence. Why is that not true?
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