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"Anything above that is interpretation." bzzzzzt wrong! ;) History. Context. Culture. Aesthetics. All of these things can be associated with objective fac
by 23B1 3y ago
"Anything above that is interpretation."
bzzzzzt wrong! ;)
History.
Context.
Culture.
Aesthetics.
All of these things can be associated with objective facts, not just relative interpretation. As a for-instance, Guernica is a depiction of an important event in history, by an important Spanish painter, who was exploring new ways to visualize and record the world through his own lens.
Conversely, using generative AI, I can synthesize any history, context, culture, or aesthetic input. Very cool and novel I'm sure, but completely disconnected from, say, the screaming women, dead babies, and dismembered soldiers of the Spanish Civil War that Guernica depicts.
- lmm 3y ago> All of these things can be associated with objective facts, not just relative interpretation. As a for-instance, Guernica is a depiction of an important event in history, by an important Spanish painter, who was exploring new ways to visualize and record the world through his own lens. Those may be objective facts (I'd argue some of them are subjective judgements, but let's put that aside), but they are not the content of the painting. As Magritte would remind us, Guernica (the painting, rather than the town) does not contain any "screaming women, dead babies, and dismembered soldiers"; rather it contains arrangements of pigments that we interpret as representing those things.
- 23B1 3y agoYou're (perhaps unintentionally) conflating interpratation with inference.