A Metaphor of Thought

Our mind can draw its own pictures and copy pictures provided by others. But even when it copies, it does not draw the contours of someone else’s picture through tracing paper neither applies grid to a picture to copy it to graph paper. It draws from life, from a photograph or from memory. That is, it recreates what it sees by creating an original image.

It’s necessary to be able to draw in order to recreate an image from your mind. Your mind forms it based on an observation. Created image is less accurate in superficial features than the one that was drawn using a carbon copy paper not even speaking about photography. Yet it reflects your understanding of the original.

Can a photo camera draw? No, it can’t. Can a computer think? No, it can’t. Even if it learned to copy better than man it can’t imagine an image. A copy machine needs an initial image, which can be copied and replicated. It isn’t able to portray something original.

Therefore, while copying techniques are being improved, the deficit of original thoughts continues to grow. Their source, as before, is exclusively Man. Not a biorobot, which was trained to copy using copying, but a human being who can think. The true artist, not a copy machine.

Our mind sculpts thoughts out of chaos like plasticine figures. To be able to mold into a good thought, chaos must be of the correct consistency, not too hard and not too soft. It must keep the shape given to it by a master and not stick to the hands of the master. Chaos must be real because only real chaos has an internal topology of asymmetries — arrows connecting causes and effects. But I’ll tell you about it some other time.