Consciousness Isn’t A Great Mystery, It’s Just A Physical Process

“It’s the most familiar thing there is, whether it’s experience of emotion, pain, understanding what someone is saying, seeing, hearing, touching, tasting or feeling. It is in fact the only thing in the universe whose ultimate intrinsic nature we can claim to know. It is utterly unmysterious. The nature of physical stuff, by contrast, is deeply mysterious.”

We Think Sea World Is Cruel, But Then We’re Wowed By The Use Of Live Animals As Art

“It is hardly debatable that the employment of animals (beings incapable of consenting to spending days, weeks, or merely hours, confined to, and on display in, galleries or museums … ) is exploitative, reflecting a form of domination that does not simply regard living animals as material so much as it deforms animals into material.”

Top Posts From AJBlogs 05.16.16

This Week In Audience 05.15.16 – New Audience V. Old Audience Edition
A confluence of stories this week that rocket between new and old, digital and physical. Physical books making a comeback while e-book sales fall. Downloads collapsing as streaming takes hold. Transitions sure are messy … read more
AJBlog: AJ Arts Audience Published 2016-05-15

An Asterisk for Twombly Record* at Sotheby’s? Bloomberg Reports Payment by Art-Swap
When is an “auction record” not really an auction record? That’s a question that may be raised regarding a wobbly Twombly benchmark set at Sotheby’s last November. In her Bloomberg report on that auction house’s … read more
AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2016-05-16

Cattle And Kenny Dorham
A cycling expedition this morning found me in cattle country. As I pulled over to enjoy the bucolic scene, who should pop into my mind but Kenny Dorham. A native Texan who spent considerably more … read more
AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2016-05-16

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