Maggie's Farm

Boy did that article give me a headache. When I think of picturesque vs. photogenic; I tend to think of the distinction that Descartes attempted to draw between illusion and reality.

The main thrust of his argument is that there must be some cause for the ideas of sensory things:

"And since the ideas perceived by sense were much more vivid and explicit and even, in their own way, more distinct than any of those that I deliberately and knowingly formed through meditation or that I found impressed on my memory, it seemed impossible that they came from myself. Thus the remaining
alternative was that they came from other things." http://fivelocusts.blogspot.com/2008/04/descartes-argument-for-existence-of.html

This distinction is especially important because if people can't distinguish between imagination and reality, they will not be able to function. And that's the direction in which we are currently headed.

If you have Hulu, I recommend that you watch "The Lonely"
https://www.hulu.com/watch/440804#i0,p5,d0

It's about a man who falls in love with a robot.