Genius or Crazy?
You decide.
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Today's homepage article shares the latest work of experimental philosopher Jonathon Keats – a kind of tightrope walker over the chasm of Possibility. This is a man who has copyrighted his own brain on the grounds that its neural networks are a kinetic sculpture he created by thinking. He opened an ... Read More
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“There never was great genius without a tincture of madness.”
– Seneca, quoting Aristotle
Parisian audiences rioted at the first performance of Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring. Socrates was sentenced to death as an “immoral corrupter of youth.” Walt Disney was fired from an early newspaper job because he “lacked imagination and had no good ideas.” Poor Van Gogh died in poverty and obscurity It is a truth universally acknowledged that brilliant ideas and thinkers are often rejected at first as irrelevant or insane. – but does knowing this history stop us from repeating it?
Here we open fascinating ideas to public inquiry or inquisition, asking you to be the judge: Is it genius? Or just plain crazy?