May 20, 2009
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Why People Believe Invisible Agents Control the World - Scientific American
Examples: children believe that the sun can think and follows them around; because of such beliefs, they often add smiley faces on sketched suns. Cute.
But I am starting to believe that what makes art art is exactly what appeals to this supersense of us humans and why it communicates on such a subconscious level, and why even the most obscure/ conceptual/ surrealist art can have such a profound effect.
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gilmoure reblogged this from moorewr and added:
Yup, same here. Everything was a little bit alive and had feelings. Kept waiting for a Mickey Mouse moment to happen.
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theartist reblogged this from moorewr and added:
We are very superstitious beings. I did a whole study (maybe 40 paintings) on how peoples faces are usually two...
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miscreation reblogged this from bebelestrange and added:
“We are natural-born supernaturalists.” Thanks for posting this article, I enjoyed reading it.
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moorewr reblogged this from bebelestrange and added:
When I was a child I thought everything could think and was aware of me.. rocks, clipboards…
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“The problem is that we did not evolve a baloney-detection device in our brains to discriminate between true and false...
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