Physicalism and Oblivion
Added 2025-10-28 01:32:14 +0000 UTC
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It was Robert Smithson who purportedly around that period of abstract expressionism was alone in making entropy the most important generative concept of art practice at the end of the sixties: his 'Spiral Jetty' and other projects pertained to the extinction of energy in any given system. Matta-Clark's "anarchitecture" took to building a wall out of garbage as in factor analysis GIGO (garbage in, garbage out). The entropy as art according to Smithson are 'ruins in reverse' and consciousness is like a perpetual attempt to reverse entropy of a peculiar structure.
Italo Giardina
2025-10-29 03:29:13 +0000 UTCThis is something I've pondered a lot myself, and I'm happy to hear you talk about it. You're quite good at finding words for difficult philosophical ideas and making them sound compelling. :)) I think physicalism inherently leads you to some kind of panpsychism, like the integrated information theory. But also it makes a lot of sense to me to just think of the universe as having one singular distributed consciousness, in which all particles participate -- Though it may seem like there are many distinct consciousnesses because the interconnectivity of the whole thing is very limited compared to the dense interconnectivity of, say, brains.
Vivian Cox
2025-10-28 02:23:12 +0000 UTC
