do you believe that all human activities can be fully described and understood through some combination of philosophy, art, craft and science?
Because of the connections that i now understand exist between the four subjects i do believe that there is someway to describe and understand all human activities.
ex. : although in my last post i related driving to science i realize that it is actually more craft or art rather than science. because you aren't focused on how the car works, rather the things you have to do to get the car and yourself in one piece to your destination. the turning of the wheel and the actions you do while driving have nothing to do with the way the car is made to work. it could be considered art the way that some people multi-task while driving.
ex. : when i am having a conversation with my friends in harrisburg via text messaging, i have to laugh when someone comments on the speed at which i text. i use the text messaging on my phone everyday, and i have subconsciously learned how to text without looking at the key pad sometimes. you could put this example into the category of craft, because it is a skill i have developed through practice and over time.
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Re: Texting as interpreted through PACS
A quick run-through of my view of texting through PACS is: philosophy enters into texting when one determines whether or not to text, and at what times; philosophy applied to texting allows one to determine the VALUE or QUALITY and also the LIMITS of texting. Through philosophy one examines the place of texting in one's life.
As one examines texting, one may begin to ask questions which might be settled through science, that is, through an examination of something with a structured approach using experiment, control, and finally a publication of results.
In your blog you speak of your fast texting as a "skill I have developed over time". In part that skill derives strictly from craft, that is, from repetition and the muscular memory which comes from repetition of a task. However, this is also a matter of science, at least initially, as one discovers by "trial and error" HOW to operate a mobile phone.
As for art, when texting becomes a clean and clear craft activity (i.e. when the muscular memory takes over and the task is performed as it were effortlessly, the concentration is not so much on the task of texting as on the content of the text, and there one enters into the business of self expression, which is to say one engages in art.
But art might also be found in the flow of the action of texting -- if this is a form of self-expression, if your rapidity in texting is a way that you show something of yourself, then the act of texting itself can be a form of art.
Again, in any act I believe it should be possible to give some indication of the interpretation of the act or the understanding of the act through philosophy, art, craft, and science.
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