• stray@pawb.social
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    6 days ago

    What if a blind person draws something to the best of their ability, but keeps the image in a private journal where no sighted person ever experiences it? (For the purposes of this hypothetical, they haven’t used a marking method that allows them to experience their creation via texture.)

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      6 days ago

      They still experienced their creation as they drew it, though. Art is still art even if it is only experienced once by a single person.

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        That’s very interesting, thank you. Do you include non-human minds? I assume a Roomba detecting an obstacle doesn’t count because it doesn’t have a meaningful internal reaction, right? I’m thinking about a future iteration of AI experiencing art, either via creation or observation. If nature has programmed my mindless cells to feel things, it stands to reason that we should be able to program mindless rocks to feel things.

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          AI could experience art, but nothing we have right now is AI. Roombas can’t experience art and ChatGPT can’t experience art. They aren’t even close tbh