Episode #76: Resident Philosopher Nicholas Whittaker in conversation with an Anonymous Passerby on talkPOPc Topic #3 Art as Cognition - "Art is Taking a Break from Thinking"

Timestamps:00:45: The capacity of our brains to receive knowledge. Fancy way of saying "thinking." Is Art a kind of thinking, is it the same thing as our "normal" thinking?02:00: Art makes you think. It is thought. A cognitive theory of Art vs the spiritual perspective of Art. 03:10: If Art is just biological, is it still beautiful? Interpretation is key. When we look at "Art" it is beautiful to us and becomes special by holding beauty. 04:25: Does life lose something special when we think of ourselves as purely biological? 05:35: Don't think of it as "I'm thinking about it." Just think instead of putting titles or labels on the experience. Just look at it. Wittgenstein's notion of "Seeing as"07:40: Philosophers of Art. Art is a break from the thinking. It's not about fitting it into a category. Instead, we just experience it immediately, we submerge ourselves in the experience.08:50: Beauty in just being. Just existing is beautiful. Doesn't require extra steps to be deemed beautiful.10:00: Something and nothing both matter. The Ugly Tree vs the Beautiful. The ugly tree is useless and beautiful at the same time.Support the showWebsite: talkpopc.orgInstagram: @talkpopcEmail: [email protected]