ARBITRIUM "ANYWAY"
Solo Show, Artist In Residence program Soulangh Artist Village, Tainan, Taiwan, 2015
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Arbitrium (Anyway) “Free will” is the ability of agents to make choices unimpeded. Impedances to choice that have been studied include: metaphysical constraints (such as logical, nomological, or theological determinism), and mental constraints (such as compulsions or phobias, neurological disorders, or genetic predispositions). The principle of free will has religious, legal, ethical, and scientific implications. For example, in the religious realm, free will implies that individual will and choices can coexist with an omnipotent, omniscient divinity that raises certain injunctions or moral obligations for man. In the law, it affects considerations of punishment and rehabilitation. In ethics, it may hold implications for whether individuals can be held morally accountable for their actions. In science, neuroscientific findings relating decisions to brain activity may suggest different ways of predicting human behaviour. Physical constraints (such as chains or imprisonment) and social constraints (such as threat of punishment or censure) limit the ability to execute choices and, in some forms are relevant to free will, when they impact the ability to make (or even to imagine or to formulate) choices, as with undue influences like brainwashing or Pavlovian conditioning. Though it is a commonly held intuition that we have free will, it has been widely debated throughout history not only whether we have free will, but also even how to define the concept of free will. How exactly must the 'will' be free, what exactly must the will be free from, in order for us to have free will? *** 自由選擇 「自由意志」是一種自由選擇的能力。讓人無法自由抉擇的因素包括「形而上的約束」（例如邏輯、法則或神學決定論等）及「心理上的約束」（如強迫或恐懼症、神經失調或天生基因取向）。自由意志的原理，可以是宗教、法律、道德和科學層面。舉例而言，在宗教上， 自由意志的定義是，個體意願及選擇能與全能且無所不知的神共存，自由選擇的同時，符合神要求的制約及道德義務；在法律上，自由意志影響懲罰或寬恕的量準；在道德上，自由意志代表的意義是，人是否能夠為自己的行為負責；在科學上，神經科學研究選擇行為與腦部活動的關係，發展出各種預測人類行為的方法。 身體上的約束（如鎖鏈或監禁）和社會約束（如威脅、懲罰或譴責）限制個人選擇的能力。在某種形式上，與自由意志有關，當它們影響人選擇的能力，或甚至遏阻人推測或規劃選擇的能力，就如同洗腦或古典制約（一種關聯性學習）等過度影響意志的行為。雖然我們普遍相信自己有自由意志，但對於人是否擁有自由意志，以及該如何定義自由意志，自古以來一直都有爭議。意志究竟能自由到什麼程度、讓人免於什麼樣的約制、為什麼我們要有自由意志？ B a r b a r a F r a g o g n a ARBITRIUM “ANYWAY ” an installation of anything 蕭壠國際藝術村A14館 | 2 0 1 5 . 3 . 27 - 5 . 24 開幕 Opening 3 . 27 at 11 am Soulangh Artist Village, Tainan, Taiwan主辦單位 / Host: Ministry of culture 承辦單位 / Organizer: Cultural Affairs Bureau, Tainan City Government 承辦單位 / Organizer: Soulangh Cultural Park |
ARBITRIUM In the beginning I was black or white. Your teaching dictated my steps. Your resonance vibrated the echo of my thought. They were Law, Dogma, Expectation. They were Duty, Obligation, Judgement. I was nothing but somebody else. Then Iʼve distorted the mirror. I was what I should be. I am what it is, to be Me. Upgrade your own Self. Synthesize your own gods. Be the Nature. 初始，我不知自己該成為怎樣的人 你指導我該如何踏出每一步 在我腦海植入想法，告訴我如何思考 那些法律、教條與期許 那些責任、義務與評價 我成為了別人，而不是自己 扭曲鏡子內的投影 我的模樣是別人塑造出來的 但我就是我 自我提升 我信仰自己的心 回歸自然、回到現實 (anyway) |