``Art has no purpose''　アートは目的を持たない

July 23, 2020 ·

It has already been more than four months since Spain first declared a state of emergency in response to the coronavirus in March. Meanwhile, coronavirus-related topics continue to be top news in the mass media every day.

In addition, in anticipation of the arrival of a second wave, and in order to avoid repeating the mistakes of the first wave, Spain is spending a large amount of money on medical equipment.

We humans, who are conscious of time, can predict the future based on past experiences and prepare for unexpected situations.

This means that we humans have the ability to learn in order to avoid mistakes and continue to survive safely.

When we make a mistake, we first try to find out what the cause was in order to avoid repeating it in the future, and then we look at past events.

All events have a cause and effect relationship, and we have the ability to infer this using our reason.

Without that movement, the world would be ruled by chaos, left to its own mercy. The reason we are conscious of time and utilize it in this way is to make our lives safer and our actions more reliable.

Furthermore, in everyday life, we do not infer the relationship between cause and effect in the past one by one.

In other words, have we not taken the relationship between cause (past) and effect (future) to be self-evident due to our personal experiences, social customs, and common sense?

For example, in a causal relationship, the cause (past) is ``taking a walk,'' and the result (future) is ``become healthy.''

However, this ``getting healthy'' usually becomes a cause, and the result is ``taking a walk.''

Therefore, when the future is the cause, the temporal relationship between the past and the future is reversed.

If we look at our daily lives, we can say that most of us act according to some kind of purpose.

In that case, any act that is obedient to the end becomes a means. “I study because I want to get a good score on a test” “I go on a diet because I want to lose weight.” If a goal is set first, then if the result falls short, we consider ourselves a failure.

What happens if that thought process becomes a habit? People will not be able to take bold adventures, or if they cannot set a goal, they will not take action.

As long as a goal can be set, people can only demonstrate their power up to that goal.

In other words, the chances of opening up unexpected and unknown possibilities are close to zero.

Our ability to seek cause-and-effect relationships in the past and avoid making mistakes in the future simultaneously dampens our motivation and keeps us from venturing into the unknown.

In other words, we are so bound by the chain of past causality that we are unable to live 100% of our lives in the present moment.

As long as we follow the two terms ``end'' and ``means'' derived from the law of cause and effect, we are only living in the past and future. In order to give eternal meaning to this moment, we must seek it through pure action.

I guess this is what they say, ``Art has no purpose.''

2020年7月23日 ·

スペインでは最初のコロナウイルスに対する緊急事態宣言が３月に出てすでに４ヶ月以上たった。

その間、コロナウイルス関係のトピックスが毎日マスメディアのトップニュースであり続けている。

また第２波の到来を予想して、第１波の失敗を繰り返さない為、スペインは大規模な予算を組んで医療機器を整備しつつある。

時間の意識を持った私たち人類は、過去の経験をもとに未来の予測を行い、不測の事態に備えることが出来る。

それはつまり、私たち人類が失敗を避け、安全に生存し続けるために、学習する能力をもっているということだ。

私たちは、何か失敗をすると、将来その失敗を繰り返さないために、先ずその原因が何かを突き止めるようとする、そして過去の出来事を照査する。

全ての出来事には原因と結果の関係があり、私たちには理性を使ってそれを推測する能力がある。

その運動がないと、世界は、なすがままに任せたカオスのみが支配する。

このように私たちが時間を意識し、それを活用するのは、私たちの人生を安全にし、行動を確実なものにするためではないか。

さらに、私たちは、日常ではこの過去に原因と結果の関係をその都度一々推論していない。