I dont know I need to create, only that I must. Misery does kick in when I am not.
Nice noticing on the window reflection, it really does add more to the image.
intentionality
I might have to get back to you after I've read some more stuff on free will, because without free will there cannot be intentionality. I am certainly not sure if we even have the agency to enable free will.
Hope you're enjoying your retirement and staying healthy on the way to your recovery from your illness.
Thank you, I am very happy: today I walked to the shops in twenty minutes instead of the forty minutes it took me five or six weeks ago.
I haven't thought about free will at all. However, this whole handwritten malarkey has tapped a nerve in me, especially the first draft, only/best draft criterion.
On that topic of free will. Does agreeing to do something for someone surrender your will to theirs? Even if it is the decision to open a door, or sit in a vacant seat next to someone on a train.
Its a complex Web, but as I said to riverflows, I have so very much... too much thay I want to read to further inform my opinions before rambling incoherently through lines of uninformed prose.
Is it a want to read? Will my free will be further sculpted by those new experiences in those awaiting books?
Okay, I was struck by your comment that every detail in a painting (or conversely, a piece of writing) is there intentionally. So that mouse or the autumn leaves in Mariana are there intentionally and have something to say.
Mariana is a beautiful painting, even if hard to penetrate for meaning at first.
Its like the Scythe in Millais' Apple Blossoms. It isn't there by accident. It has meaning, and I think its the whole reason the painting exists.
If you were to crop it out, there would be other pictorial elements that enable meaning, but we require the whole to appreciate the underlying context and intention.
Have read The City and the City by Mieville? It is a really interesting novel about observation and sub and un concious intentionality. Possibly also about the lack of free will...
My train is nearly to the city, so my free will shall be abducted shortly.
I read your review of the City and the City and I got it from the library but they wanted it back before I had read it. Right now I'm deep in psychogeography and the situationists are waiting for me, but Mieville is in my list for a future date.