Recent content by Bongo

You are right, of course. But a hypothesis that is not testable or falsifiable can still be "ponderable" imo. Sheldrake has both credentials and credulity that makes him dangerous for the casual layperson. I'm a skeptical layperson so I can entertain his ideas without succumbing to them.

I am a big fan of Rupert Sheldrake - one of my regrets is not being able to meet him when he gave a talk at a local bookstore many years ago. His concept of morphogenic resonance/fields seems plausible to me although lacks scientific rigor, as does his theory about esp between pets and their...

The image IS A.I. generated. The same AI image with slight variation is plastered all over the web. I don't like it when people post A.I. art and claim it's original - especially when it's so blatantly obvious, it makes me think I'm being played for a sucker and a fool. (I may be a sucker...

the "interesting" link you provided starts with Welcome to the Spark Creative Community, I'm adida. and the one posted above here starts with Welcome to the Creative Spark community I am Artedia so not quite word for word

I was being facisius. I have no reason to doubt it. But every picture or video I see on youtube - the first comments are accusing works of being "Ai" and it's becoming increasingly hard/impossible to tell. People are creating fake preliminary work to "prove" their work is original and not Ai...

A.I.

It's more like - don't copy my copy of the masters, make your own copy of the masters. The Copyright Office has consistently denied registration to works that lack “human creative input,” including images generated entirely by AI in response to a user prompt. using the same AI program, if you...

From some guy name Zahir on X -- “‘Make your own prompts’ isn’t advice. It’s basic integrity, I’m honestly fed up. Changing a few words, renaming the prompt, or slightly rephrasing it doesn’t make it yours, the idea is still the same, the vibe is the same, and the results are obviously...

I hate it when people say "read the book" to settle a dispute, but in this case i think it's warranted. With your borderline encyclopedic familiarty of the master's work, I think you would enjoy Secret Knowledge immensely. It is not an attack but a love letter. And so researched, annotated...

With the mirror-lens they were limited to smaller sizes, so they collaged multiple projections to make a larger image - until lenses became available to project bigger.

have you read "Secret Knowledge". Hockney makes a very strong case. Also if you don't think they used projection devices then you have to explain the many awkward "mistakes" they made, mistakes would seem odd to make unless you used projection. Hockney does NOT consider using projection...

Also turns out the "sarcastic joke" I made in the email: accusing my friend of cheating by turning puzzle pieces upside down so not to be confused by the picture ---well---the joke is on me because-- - Little did I know that nowadays they PRINT LETTERS on the backs of the puzzle pieces. So...

AI used to check spelling in my emails, and I really appreciated that. Then AI started correcting my grammar,and I found that helpful. Then I would type the first word or two of a commonly used phrase, and AI would complete the sentence for me. Then AI started finishing more nuanced...

Thanks Brians - celebrate life.

thanks everyone, much appreciated