Our talkPOPc Fall 2022 Intern Aharon speaks with Resident Philosopher and talkPOPc founder Dr. Dena Shottenkirk about individual point of view and how we reach consensus. 

Timestamps:

• 00:10: Introductions, Consensus view of Art, and favorite forms
• 01:20: Art as a subjective form. Based on the person perceiving it and stories like Harry Potter
• 02:50: Not just narrative, but the experience as well. 5 readers and 5 vastly different experiences?
• 04:15: Game of Thrones, the general objective consensus view. How does it happen if the experience is a subjective one? Rejection of consensus
• 05:40: We get consensus on a superficial level. The layers of experience 
• 06:35: Consensus on how "good" or "worth" something is. 
• 09:00: Every new change is a new branching path to analyze. Nuances of our own thoughts aren't exactly neat and orderly. 
• 12:00: Art as knowledge acquisition. When we experience anything, only we truly understand that experienced. We can't really share it. 
• 14:40: How do we come to consensus and bring it out into the social world?
• 16:00: Different approaches. Government makes all rules, letting the philosopher kings rule, or we each pay attention to the subjectivities of others
• 17:40: Respecting the subjectivities too much. Maybe a bit dangerous to society. But perhaps we need to listen but not make it a rule. 
• 19:45: Just because it happens to you, does not give you the final say on definition, but your PoV still matters
• 21:35: The objective does exist, and through that we build claims of universal rules. 

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