/ Art vs Engineering /
Engineering has become a very popular word over the first two decades of the 21st century. We can thank software advances for that social phenomenon. But a word, is just a word.
Another word, more commonly used, has been Art. Notoriously hard to define, I would like to take a moment to frame it in opposition to Engineering.
1. Engineering is what you do, when you have a specific outcome in mind. Often enough, the ends justify the means. This is what you do when you want to change the objective world, to fit your subjective vision.
2. Art is what you do, when you don't have a specific outcome in mind. Often enough, the means justify the ends. This is what you do when you want to change your subjective vision, to fit an objective world.
3. In other words, this dichotomy measures on a scale how rigid you want your subjective vision to be. If you don't want to change yourself, you are most certainly being an engineer, by asserting that what you specifically want should be reified in the minds of others. If you mainly want to change yourself, you are most certainly being an artist, by asserting that your cognitive state will eventually reify what the objective world will force you to do.
4. Of course, there are man points on the scale, and one rarely picks an extreme.
5. Of course, this dichotomisation is arbitrary study of language, and language is only as useful as its users deem it.
Good day!
Xref : https://sextechandmergers.blogspot.com/2024/08/neural-development-all-systems-go.html
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