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I think this hits the nail on the head. My response to seeing "the" Mona Lisa is much different than seeing a reproduction of the same, no matter how faithful t
by faefox 5y ago
I think this hits the nail on the head. My response to seeing "the" Mona Lisa is much different than seeing a reproduction of the same, no matter how faithful that reproduction may be. In a digital space where anything and everything can be losslessly duplicated ad infinitum that distinction simply doesn't exist.
- tshaddox 5y agoBut I'm presuming you're not an expert, and you just trusted that the museum was showing the original. What if they show a fake one, and the original is kept somewhere more secure? Or what if all experts are wrong, and the one we think is the original is not actually the original? Would learning that diminish your value of that viewing experience?