{"id":2625,"date":"2023-10-17T11:01:47","date_gmt":"2023-10-17T15:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2023\/10\/reconnecting-us\/"},"modified":"2023-10-17T11:01:47","modified_gmt":"2023-10-17T15:01:47","slug":"reconnecting-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2023\/10\/reconnecting-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Reconnecting Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From a recent article in the NY TIMES by physicist Carlo Rovelli:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&quot;I think that this is also how the best art works. Science and art are both concerned with the continual reorganization of our conceptual space, of what we call meaning. What happens when we react to a work of art is not happening in the art object itself, of course \u2014 still less in some unphysical \u201cworld of the spirit.\u201d It lies in the complexity of our brain, in the kaleidoscopic network of analogical relationships with which our neurons weave what we call meaning.<br \/>We are involved, engaged \u2014 for this takes us out of our habitual sleepwalking, reconnecting us with the joy of seeing something anew in the world.&quot;<\/p>\n<div class=\"tpad-img-center\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/6a01156f6c1fc1970b02c8d39c40af200c-800wi\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"P_0299\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a01156f6c1fc1970b02c8d39c40af200c img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/6a01156f6c1fc1970b02c8d39c40af200c-500wi.jpg\" title=\"P_0299\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From a recent article in the NY TIMES by physicist Carlo Rovelli: &quot;I think that this is also how the best art works. Science and art are both concerned with the continual reorganization of our conceptual space, of what we call meaning. What happens when we react to a work of art is not happening [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}