The Future of Artistic Thinking and Cosmology

The Future of Artistic Thinking and Cosmology

Curator Gu Zhenqing

Steven Hawking begins by saying “philosophy is dead” in his book The Grand Design, he tried to question the way in which pure philosophy and religion explain nature and seek objective truth. In recent years, the observers of cosmic background radiation have kept observing the fluctuations in the background temperature of space, but they have not seen any objects that obviously exceed 13.7 billion light years. It also comfirmed The Big Bang theory. Whether the universe is flat, closed or open, the universe without boundary conditions will continue to expand indefinitely.

The logic of philosophical and scientific thinking has been advanced to today, people have greater doubts and a sense of crisis about its negative effects. Humans have been expanding their space and time dimensions. According to today's cosmology, the sun is still five billion years away from becoming a red giant star, so some people have subjectively assumed that human civilization has a limit of more than a billion years, and speculated that in that time, human beings must be able to achieve extraterrestrial migration.

How far is mankind from its ultimate limit? Is the ultimate event horizon of the human race a cosmic event horizon with no boundary? If artistic thinking allows the ultimate vision to move forward, what insights and testifications will one gain? According to the rate at which the earth's environment is being increasingly damaged by human beings, and the uncontrollable negative risks caused by the rapid development of nuclear technology, artificial intelligence technology and biological genetic technology, it is possible that mankind will encounter some kind of doomsday disaster in the near future. In fact, humanity's most fundamental and important goal is to live in harmony with this planet and this galaxy for longer. But humans always seem to forget the ultimate goal.

Artistic thinking, philosophic and scientific thinking explore the meaning of human existence and the genuine knowledge of the existence of all things through different ways. Human cognition of the past cosmic laws and inherent regulations depends too much on the theory of reflection a hundred years ago and the ontology of a hundred years. However, since the beginning of the 21st century, under the condition that human beings continuously break through the limitations of existing cosmology and world view, the artistic thinking logic of artists, the philosophical and scientific thinking logic of scientists and philosophers, are continue to crossing, intersecting, interacting, interpenetrating in parallel. It will stimulate the possibility of a breakthrough development.