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| Isaac McCaslin, Insect-like Mutations in a Waiting Room, oil on canvas, 48 x 96 in, 2014 |
Can I achieve a balanced calm resolve whilst
actively in a struggle with the forces of deterioration and change?
I fear
Death.
Insect-like
Mutations in a Waiting Room, is a triptych about the extent to
which our impressions in this world, if they have any influence at all, matter.
Does the value of my contributions rest in their capacity to aid in
some sort of social progress. Is it the case that progress holds value
even if I accept by faith and observation the absolute transience of all
things? Cycles of creation and destruction are a theme in my work. For me,
creation is in part rooted to a yearning for freedom, intention, and the
sustainment of will. This yearning is a reaction to the fear of destruction.
Judgement and Justification are strategies
of persuasion to affect ones social system in a way which
hopefully improves the groups sustainment of happiness. To judge or to
Justify one assumes that there is a right or wrong way or rather a useful or
counterproductive way. I justify my actions by identifying or holding
affinity with certain ideologies, But these ideologies are embraced because I
fear deterioration and change. They are a defense mechanism to fight against
the fragmentation of order into chaos. An ideology will not die as fast as I
will. Alas. . . an ideology is only a virtual reality
sustained by individuals and societies for the sake of justifying a way of
acting in the world or a way to begin acting in the world. Meaning itself is a
virtual mechanism for communicating ideas. Ideas are nothing without intent. I
don't believe God intended the Big Bang, perhaps its purely random. I believe
intent began with Life. Life began mysteriously, but, consciousness
aside, Life's intent has been to reproduce and
conduct deliberate complex movements by harnessing energy
storages from the sun.
Somehow, from life, consciousness emerged and
eventually it struggled to make sense of things giving rise to knowledge
and ingenuity. Learning from History contextualizes the present which allows
for predicting future outcomes. But what is the nature of reality where
all this takes place. Implicit in the number of theories on the table for
Theoretical Physicists today is a philosophical debate over
the existence of time and the nature of reality. Is reality a
fundamental procession of events through time that accumulate in a moment
or is reality a timeless space of fundamental stuff existing in
its peculiar way where causal interaction,
one-after-the-other progressions are mere illusions? What is time? The
perception of time could be the filtering of movements in space and alterations
of matter into a sequence of events. It could be that the filtering is a
perceptual distortion of a more fundamental reality. Then again, Time could be essentially real. If
Consciousness emerges from a piling up of events resulting in a complex
naturally designed biological system capable of perception, Is consciousness a
product of time or is time a product of consciousness?
I wonder how is 'the meaning of life'
related to 'the function of life'. Functionally, Life is a process
for stuff to move and organize more deliberately and
reproduce. Should the question, 'what is the meaning of life?'
be set up in this timeless manner seeking an answer as if there is one. Should
the question really be something more teleological such as "to
what end should we be progressing toward?" What if, to entertain a
contradictory thought, the answer to this teleological question
should be sustainment, that is, struggling against cessation--there should be
no end--Death should be overcome? The way we feel about our choice of words
matters because freedom in its most introspective sense is a feeling achieved
through balancing that which we accept and that which we control in the face of
something like an anarchical chaotic regime or a totalitarian ordered regime.
Sustainment should incorporate a balanced fluctuating process of change and
stasis, because consistently infinite stasis would be like death. What should
life, more specifically, Humanity, be evolving toward? Through time, if ever
agreed upon, the question of purpose is bound to change for the sake of
reproducing a more modified question. Reproduction with modification is
integral to Evolution. Reproduction of concepts with modification is
integral in order to conjoin ineffective categories of cognition, into new
categories, specific or general, which could be shocking. Imagine the shock of
paradoxical quandaries becoming simple things. Would the resulting Idea become
an ideology of control, order, chaos, or freedom? Either way, introspective
freedom is a feeling achieved through responding to chaos and order in ones
mind and environment with a well timed sense of knowing when to control and
when to accept.
Can I achieve a balanced calm resolve whilst
actively in a struggle with the forces of deterioration and change?
I fear
Death.
Insect-like
Mutations in a Waiting Room, is a triptych about the extent to
which our impressions in this world, if they have any influence at all, matter.
Does the value of my contributions rest in their capacity to aid in
some sort of social progress. Is it the case that progress holds value
even if I accept by faith and observation the absolute transience of all
things? Cycles of creation and destruction are a theme in my work. For me,
creation is in part rooted to a yearning for freedom, intention, and the
sustainment of will. This yearning is a reaction to the fear of destruction.
Judgement and Justification are strategies
of persuasion to affect ones social system in a way which
hopefully improves the groups sustainment of happiness. To judge or to
Justify one assumes that there is a right or wrong way or rather a useful or
counterproductive way. I justify my actions by identifying or holding
affinity with certain ideologies, But these ideologies are embraced because I
fear deterioration and change. They are a defense mechanism to fight against
the fragmentation of order into chaos. An ideology will not die as fast as I
will. Alas. . . an ideology is only a virtual reality
sustained by individuals and societies for the sake of justifying a way of
acting in the world or a way to begin acting in the world. Meaning itself is a
virtual mechanism for communicating ideas. Ideas are nothing without intent. I
don't believe God intended the Big Bang, perhaps its purely random. I believe
intent began with Life. Life began mysteriously, but, consciousness
aside, Life's intent has been to reproduce and
conduct deliberate complex movements by harnessing energy
storages from the sun.
Somehow, from life, consciousness emerged and
eventually it struggled to make sense of things giving rise to knowledge
and ingenuity. Learning from History contextualizes the present which allows
for predicting future outcomes. But what is the nature of reality where
all this takes place. Implicit in the number of theories on the table for
Theoretical Physicists today is a philosophical debate over
the existence of time and the nature of reality. Is reality a
fundamental procession of events through time that accumulate in a moment
or is reality a timeless space of fundamental stuff existing in
its peculiar way where causal interaction,
one-after-the-other progressions are mere illusions? What is time? The
perception of time could be the filtering of movements in space and alterations
of matter into a sequence of events. It could be that the filtering is a
perceptual distortion of a more fundamental reality. Then again, Time could be essentially real. If
Consciousness emerges from a piling up of events resulting in a complex
naturally designed biological system capable of perception, Is consciousness a
product of time or is time a product of consciousness?
I wonder how is 'the meaning of life'
related to 'the function of life'. Functionally, Life is a process
for stuff to move and organize more deliberately and
reproduce. Should the question, 'what is the meaning of life?'
be set up in this timeless manner seeking an answer as if there is one. Should
the question really be something more teleological such as "to
what end should we be progressing toward?" What if, to entertain a
contradictory thought, the answer to this teleological question
should be sustainment, that is, struggling against cessation--there should be
no end--Death should be overcome? The way we feel about our choice of words
matters because freedom in its most introspective sense is a feeling achieved
through balancing that which we accept and that which we control in the face of
something like an anarchical chaotic regime or a totalitarian ordered regime.
Sustainment should incorporate a balanced fluctuating process of change and
stasis, because consistently infinite stasis would be like death. What should
life, more specifically, Humanity, be evolving toward? Through time, if ever
agreed upon, the question of purpose is bound to change for the sake of
reproducing a more modified question. Reproduction with modification is
integral to Evolution. Reproduction of concepts with modification is
integral in order to conjoin ineffective categories of cognition, into new
categories, specific or general, which could be shocking. Imagine the shock of
paradoxical quandaries becoming simple things. Would the resulting Idea become
an ideology of control, order, chaos, or freedom? Either way, introspective
freedom is a feeling achieved through responding to chaos and order in ones
mind and environment with a well timed sense of knowing when to control and
when to accept.