From Brian Eno's A Year with Swollen Appendices: Brian Eno's Diary:
"So how do we develop this ability to experience and speculate about other ways of thinking and feeling about the world? I think we do it by continually immersing ourselves in cultural experiences that rehearse us. This is obvious in films and novels- where we quite explicitly enter an imagined world and then watch characters in imaginary quandaries. In doing so we develop a lot of surrogate experience about what it is like to be someone else, somewhere else, with different assumptions."
On Morse Peckham's Man's Rage for Chaos
"....this is what art is for: to confront us with mysteries, things we don't properly understand, we know we don't understand, but we nonetheless find ourselves excited and stimulated by. This linkage of uncertainty with pleasure is the key to his theory- a way of training ourselves to enjoy exploring, to act without complete information, to improvise."
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