You live and you learn. An interesting idea about philosophy (from Deleuze) I believe is that the role of philosophy is the creation of concepts.
Maybe. If you want to make something you also need to have a fair grasp of a lot of such things. It amazes me how I still keep coming across new concepts and ideas all the time, often connected with something that I've had great interest in for most of life....
Wabi-sabi is an example. A Japanese ideal of aesthetics (with roots in Zen, which has always fascinated me), or lifestyle or something (vague and slippery as is wont for Eastern concepts) .... celebrating simplicity, asymmetry, chance and transcience and diametrically opposed to Western ideals of grandness, immortality, symmetry and pomposity .... so the grand European churches and symphonies would be as far from Wabi-sabi as you could get... I think there is a great deal of it in stuff like ready-mades, generative music and such like, maybe I'll get back to it, maybe not. I think me and Ringo are Wabi-sabi drummers, but, well, yeah.... A film on Wabi-sabi.
Another connected with evolutionary theory, a pet interest of mine, is 'eusociality', which is when species live in highly organised, multi-generational systems. Mostly seen in insects. One of the guys behind this is one E.O. Wilson.... he sees humans as exhibiting some of the features of eusociality, which has brought him into serious conflict with many biologists, including Richard Dawkins. I really don't like Dawkins so intuitively I side with Wilson - but I can't claim to have looked into this deeply enough to be sure. Sure, Dawkins's idea of the meme is very interesting, but this whole new-atheist thing is just way over the top, far too pompous and uninteresting, lacking all nuance and elegance....
The conclusion eludes me.
