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Tag: Philosophy

  • If You Had to Lose One: Sight or Hearing?

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    Maarten Van Den Driessche
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    Would you rather lose your hearing or your sight? At first, it sounds like a question about the senses. But perhaps it is really a question about existence. How much of who we are depends on the way the world reaches us? Sight gives us distance. We can look toward a horizon, recognise a face…

  • Art Is Data

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    Maarten Van Den Driessche
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    We often think of art and data as opposites. One belongs in galleries, the other in spreadsheets. One speaks to emotion, the other to logic. But every work of art is data. A painting contains information about the artist, the era, the available materials, the culture, and the emotions of its time. A song records…

  • All You Have Is Now

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    Maarten Van Den Driessche
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    There is one truth that unites every person on Earth: none of us knows how much time we have. We spend years planning for tomorrow, worrying about the future, or looking back at the past. We tell ourselves we’ll travel “one day,” call an old friend “next week,” or finally pursue that dream “when the…