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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  1. 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.
  2. mohamednoordeen reblogged this from standardgrey
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  4. 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...
  5. miscreation reblogged this from bebelestrange and added:
    “We are natural-born supernaturalists.” Thanks for posting this article, I enjoyed reading it.
  6. moorewr reblogged this from bebelestrange and added:
    When I was a child I thought everything could think and was aware of me.. rocks, clipboards…
  7. thewayoftheworld reblogged this from bebelestrange and added:
    “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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