What do you mean by “meaning” here? How does an attribute of size have inherent meaning?
It is absolutely unclear what you mean by this. What does “height” relate to and resonate with, and why does that change with object? What do you even mean by “relate and resonate”?
What do you mean by “part/property”? Something like “height”? How do you put “height” into a different context? “You can create a [...] different version of it”? What do you mean by “fundamentally different”? A version of what? Of “height”?
I tried to give 3 examples there (with paintings). But here’s a simpler example:
Imagine a cube and a tree. Think about their heights. Cube’s height has a different “meaning” because it’s the same thing as its width and length.
You may need to make a leap of faith/understanding here somewhere, it’s a new concept or perspective. I may try explaining it in different ways and analogies, but I can’t reduce this idea to simpler ideas.
For example, I could make an analogy with homology in biology:
Roughly spherical eggs of different animals give rise to unique morphologies, from jellyfish to lobsters, butterflies to elephants. Many of these organisms share the same structural genes for body-building proteins like collagen and enzymes, but biologists had expected that each group of animals would have its own rules of development. The surprise of evo-devo is that the shaping of bodies is controlled by a rather small percentage of genes, and that these regulatory genes are ancient, shared by all animals. The giraffe does not have a gene for a long neck, any more than the elephant has a gene for a big body. Their bodies are patterned by a system of switching which causes development of different features to begin earlier or later, to occur in this or that part of the embryo, and to continue for more or less time.[7]
Those topics talk about the ways animals’ parts and properties get differentiated.
And you can combine all properties of an object into just a single one.
I tried to give 3 examples of this. It’s some type of holism: “you should view a part in the context of the whole”, “a whole is greater than the sum of its parts”.
I give this idea a fractal spin: “any part of a thing is equivalent to the whole”. The most similar philosophical idea I know of is Gottfried Leibniz’s Monadology, for example:
(III) Composite substances or matter are “actually sub-divided without end” and have the properties of their infinitesimal parts (§65). A notorious passage (§67) explains that “each portion of matter can be conceived as like a garden full of plants, or like a pond full of fish. But each branch of a plant, each organ of an animal, each drop of its bodily fluids is also a similar garden or a similar pond”.
You can compare colors to monads and spectrums to the “supreme monad” (God).
So you are describing art theory! That is something learned in 10th grade art. Contrast /homo-/heterogenity of form, color etc.
I don’t think it’s art theory. Not 10th grade.
No idea what you are getting at. Why are you calling your new super property “color” when you are also discussing classical form and color? This makes confusing these terms incredibly likely.
I believe I don’t discuss classical “color”. I only mention it in a single analogy (and one more time when I mention qualia).
My goal
I guess you are talking about categorizing arbitrary qualia properties and their relations, but that is a matter of art theory. How do you even propose to objectively study something inherently subjective? It does seem that what you describe is covered by artists. Beyond that it is incredibly unclear what you are talking about.
I can explain my goal with a story. I didn’t include it in the post to not make it too big, but maybe I should have:
Blind men and an elephant
Imagine a world where people don’t know the concept of a “circle”. People do see round things, but can’t consciously pick out the property of roundness. (Any object has a lot of other properties.)
Some people say “the Moon is like a face”. Other say “the Moon is like a flower”. Weirder people say “the Moon is like a tree trunk” or “the Moon is like an embrace”. The weirdest people say “the Moon is like a day” or “the Moon is like going for a walk and returning back home”. Nobody agrees with each other, nobody understands each other.
Then one person comes up and says: “All of you are right. Opinions of everyone contain objective and useful information.”
People are shocked: at least someone has got to be wrong? If everyone is right, how can the information be objective and useful?
The concept of a “circle” is explained. Suddenly it’s extremely easy to understand each other. Like 2 and 2. And suddenly there’s nothing to argue about. People begin to share their knowledge and this knowledge finds completely unexpected applications.
The situation was just like in the story about blind men and an elephant, but even more ironic, since this time everyone was touching the same “shape”.
With my story I wanted to explain my opinions and goals:
I want to share my subjective experience.
I believe that it contains objective and important information.
I want to share a way to share subjective experiences. I believe everyone’s experience contains objective and important information.
Properties, differences
I tried to give 3 examples there (with paintings). But here’s a simpler example:
Imagine a cube and a tree. Think about their heights. Cube’s height has a different “meaning” because it’s the same thing as its width and length.
You may need to make a leap of faith/understanding here somewhere, it’s a new concept or perspective. I may try explaining it in different ways and analogies, but I can’t reduce this idea to simpler ideas.
For example, I could make an analogy with homology in biology:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary_developmental_biology#The_control_of_body_structure
Those topics talk about the ways animals’ parts and properties get differentiated.
I tried to give 3 examples of this. It’s some type of holism: “you should view a part in the context of the whole”, “a whole is greater than the sum of its parts”.
I give this idea a fractal spin: “any part of a thing is equivalent to the whole”. The most similar philosophical idea I know of is Gottfried Leibniz’s Monadology, for example:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monadology
You can compare colors to monads and spectrums to the “supreme monad” (God).
I don’t think it’s art theory. Not 10th grade.
I believe I don’t discuss classical “color”. I only mention it in a single analogy (and one more time when I mention qualia).
My goal
I can explain my goal with a story. I didn’t include it in the post to not make it too big, but maybe I should have:
Blind men and an elephant
Imagine a world where people don’t know the concept of a “circle”. People do see round things, but can’t consciously pick out the property of roundness. (Any object has a lot of other properties.)
Some people say “the Moon is like a face”. Other say “the Moon is like a flower”. Weirder people say “the Moon is like a tree trunk” or “the Moon is like an embrace”. The weirdest people say “the Moon is like a day” or “the Moon is like going for a walk and returning back home”. Nobody agrees with each other, nobody understands each other.
Then one person comes up and says: “All of you are right. Opinions of everyone contain objective and useful information.”
People are shocked: at least someone has got to be wrong? If everyone is right, how can the information be objective and useful?
The concept of a “circle” is explained. Suddenly it’s extremely easy to understand each other. Like 2 and 2. And suddenly there’s nothing to argue about. People begin to share their knowledge and this knowledge finds completely unexpected applications.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_men_and_an_elephant
The situation was just like in the story about blind men and an elephant, but even more ironic, since this time everyone was touching the same “shape”.
With my story I wanted to explain my opinions and goals:
I want to share my subjective experience.
I believe that it contains objective and important information.
I want to share a way to share subjective experiences. I believe everyone’s experience contains objective and important information.
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