truth or dare - readers' answers

1/Apr/97

Your body is more personal to you than your mind is. True or false?

2/Apr/97

Evolution is mostly functional. True or false?

False. Evolution is mostly random deviation which does not either improve or hurt the chances of survival.
Kenji

3/Apr/97

Art is for educated people. True or false?

True. Art is a pleasure and every pleasure requires a receptor to get pleased by it. Such a receptor can only be obtained through training.
Kenji

4/Apr/97

Promises should be kept. True or false?

True in a game theoretic sense only.
Kenji

5/Apr/97

Human face is the ultimate user interface. True or false?

I don't know if it's ultimate, but it surely is one of the best visual objects human brain can handle.
Kenji

6/Apr/97

The structures of our brains are visible. True or false?

True. Look around you and see if you can find anything which isn't an offspring of human brains.
Kenji

7/Apr/97

Capitalism is in favour of solving environmental problems. True or false?

True if natural processes can be incorporated into our economic systems.
Kenji

8/Apr/97

Your body is capital. True or false?

True only if I am a capitalist.
Kenji

9/Apr/97

Your gene is your blueprint. True or false?

False. It's a recipe.
Kenji

10/Apr/97

There is a proof of existence of life outside of Earth. True or false?

True. Examples are the footprints on Moon and Voyagers.
Kenji

11/Apr/97

Your clothing is part of your body. True or false?

It must be true if my skin, whose cells are mostly dead is part of my body. There must be no clear boundary between my body and my belongings.
Kenji

12/Apr/97

Mimicry is beneficial for survival even in human society. True or false?

True. Because my behaviours were indistinguishable for the eyes of company executives from those of elite workers, I had been regarded as one of those workers until I revealed my true nature as an artist and left.
Kenji

13/Apr/97

Feeling sorrow is beneficial for survival. True or false?

It must be true, otherwise it is not likely that such a feeling has evolved. Probably it has been beneficial for social life if one empathized.
Kenji

14/Apr/97

The boundary between life and death is negotiable. True or false?

True. There is no clear boundary between life and death, and it is usually defined by each society.
Kenji

15/Apr/97

There is no sound unless there is an ear to hear it. True or false?

True. Unless there is an ear to hear it and a brain to process the hearing, what we call sound is just vibration of the air.
Kenji

16/Apr/97

Work ethic is stupid. True or false?

I don't mind answering true for this one.
Kenji

17/Apr/97

Ones you think are genius are just ordinary people. True or false?

False. If ones I think are genius are just ordinary people, it only tells my limitation of understanding.
Kenji

18/Apr/97

Objectivity is a religion. True or false?

True. There is no reason why I should believe in it.
Kenji

19/Apr/97

Fine art is a joke. True or false?

True. An artist is a rebel just like comedians are.
Kenji

20/Apr/97

An art is an art of zen. True or false?

True. An artist is a rebel just like zen priests are.
Kenji

21/Apr/97

Dream is the basis of our reality. True or false?

I do not really understand the question, but I can tell that our reality is no different from our dreams as far as the process of perception is concerned. We perceive the world as we perceive the dreams.
Kenji

22/Apr/97

A human is a robot. True or false?

True. A robot is an abstration of a human. In other words, it is how a human brain perceives a human (our bodies are analogies of available technologies). Since there isn't a human without a human brain's perception, we can safely say that a human is a robot.
Kenji

23/Apr/97

Future is like our bodies. True or false?

True. They both are not inventions of human brains.
Kenji

24/Apr/97

Capitalism is harmful for music industry. True or false?

True. It will lead our music to a cul-de-sac.
Kenji

25/Apr/97

Being serious is a funny business. True or false?

True. Its rigidness makes me laugh all the time.
Kenji

26/Apr/97

Causality is embedded in our brains. True or false?

True. Given two unrelated events, we unconsciously connect them and tend to regard the first event as the cause of the second.
Kenji

27/Apr/97

Belief in voodoo is inherent in human brains. True or false?

True. Since causality is embedded in our brains, it naturally follows that some minds believe in magic.
Kenji

28/Apr/97

Physics is a science of our mind. True or false?

True. Of course physics is a study of Nature, but it is always Nature observed by our mind and is nothing other than that. Physics tells us how we understand Nature, and reveals the abstractions in our mind.
Kenji

29/Apr/97

Your body is a social system. True or false?

False, but it is often told to behave as one in my social life.
Kenji

30/Apr/97

An art is a restriction of movements according to your senses. True or false?

I know Takeshi Yoro said this and I must admit it has some truth in it. But I do not like to agree, because then an artist becomes a slave for his or her own senses. I like to consider my art as a reference to the process of my perceiving things, which is the most profound question I have been made aware of.
Kenji