I have written a new
blog post wherein I discuss the concept of possible worlds or parallel universes or whatever you want to call it and what that might mean for creative living and good art. It's a little heady and I apologize if it comes off pretentious or douchey. Certainly not the intention.
Basically, the in philosophy or physics, possible worlds means the likelihood that something could (or does if you think the universes are actually part of reality) happen. In philosophy, it's used to demonstrate the logical possibility of a proposition such as, "There is no possible world in which there is a square circle." In physics, it has to do with quantum mechanics and how we can't know for certain where an electron will be and this could impact reality as we experience it. I'm thinking of all of this in connection with creativity and how I think creative endeavors connect us with those possible worlds, and the degree to which the artist describes the possible world he or she is connected with accurately determines the relative truth (and thereby quality) of the art.
I originally started thinking about this in terms of fiction and how fiction writers describe the narrative in terms of events that actually happened, are happening, or will happen and the way that fiction writers often describe how they get to know their characters and whatnot. So, what if Gatsby and Daisy aren't just figment's of F. Scott Fitzgerald's imagination? What if they really exist somewhere, sometime, somehow and FSF is simply connecting us with them to give us a window into that aspect of reality?
Anyway, I don't want to replicate the entire post here. The whole thing is just under 900 words in Markdown format according to TextMate, so you might plan accordingly. I'd love to hear your thoughts, either here or there.
work. life. creativity
