On Tuesday, January 22, 2002 at 10:49, andrew fildes
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wrote re "Re: [OM] OT Philosophy (was) OM4Ti Failure" saying:
> >I might agree with you AndrewF if I were sure that you existed to agree
> >with.
>
> If a shutter fires in the forest......
>
> >Perhaps I need my camera to get a photo to be certain of existence
> >outside my *immediate* experience - what I can see, hear or smell
> >now. Getting a photo a part of the world that I was not looking at
> >at the time proves that that part of the world existed when I was not
> >experiencing it.
And how do you view the image? - using the same sensory organs that you
used in the first place. But now others who weren't present can see it.
This is a very democratic existentialism: Others vote, therefore I am.
> Unfortunately, the photograph/image is also part of that exterior world.
> Your senses are equally deceived by the representation as by the 'reality.'
> I recommend an early Russell Crowe movie - 'Proof' - as an exploration of
> the use of photography to establish a reality and trust in others.
Or Blow-up as a counterbalance
> >The trouble with cameras without a mirror is that you are never not
> >experiencing the scene, so you are never sure that it would have been
> >there if you had not been seeing it ...
You could always blink.
> Depends on whether you see time as strictly linear or a progression of
> infinitely small moments. Good luck with that one!
Quantum time?
tOM (bicyclist)
> >[Will that do as a counterpoint to Shumano, Suntour and Ni-Cd old chap?]
> >:>) Chris
>
> A good start.
> AndrewF
> (ex-cycle salesperson)
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