Deep Thoughts
Karma vs Schadenfreude — In essence, while karma is a broader spiritual concept about the consequences of actions, schadenfreude is a specific emotional response to others' misfortunes. The two can intersect when someone feels pleasure (schadenfreude) at what they perceive as karmic justice being served to another person.
We are poor indeed if we are only sane.
—D. W. Winnicott (English Psychoanalyst)
You’re only given one little spark of madness. You mustn’t lose it.
— Robin Williams
Mr. Rogers once said, “I’m very concerned that our society is much more interested in information than wonder.” Revelations probably swim past us all the time, we just fail to capture them in our relentless quest for the next byte of data or the next notification. The answers we look for are usually not invented but found. Truth never moves; when w... See more
This suggests that AI, as an artistic medium based around playful inter-subjectivity, will be more about process than outcome, more about participation than consumption, more about the doing rather than the beholding. Some of the best AI art experiences are about what the AI prompts in you, rather than what you prompt the AI to do. Enjoying AI art
... See moreI write entirely to find out what I’m thinking, what I’m looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.
— Joan Didion
“The concept of truth lies at the very heart of civilization,” Angus continued. “Take it away, and what have we left. Anarchy. A fight for survival. The disappearance of all morality. Human life becomes a nightmare.”
— The Enigma of Garlic: 44 Scotland Street Series (16) by Alexander McCall Smith
However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.
— Stanley Kubrick