{"id":100428,"date":"2016-07-15T09:43:59","date_gmt":"2016-07-15T13:43:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=100428"},"modified":"2016-07-15T16:10:07","modified_gmt":"2016-07-15T20:10:07","slug":"the-art-of-insomnia-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/07\/15\/the-art-of-insomnia-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"The Art of Insomnia, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_100431\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/1500.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-100431\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-100431\" class=\"wp-image-100431\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/1500.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"473\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/1500.jpg 1010w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/1500-300x236.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/1500-768x605.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-100431\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A 1955 oil painting by Dr. Seuss. Photo: The Art of Dr Seuss and Liss Gallery, via the <em>Guardian<\/em>.<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Today in deeply disturbing ontological questions: in the not-too-distant future, we can reasonably expect to upload simulations of ourselves to computers to enjoy eternal digital afterlives. So, uh \u2026 as Michael Graziano asks: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/science\/archive\/2016\/07\/what-a-digital-afterlife-would-be-like\/491105\/\" target=\"_blank\">Did you cheat death, or merely replace yourself with a creepy copy<\/a>? I can\u2019t pretend to have a definitive answer \u2026 My own perspective borrows from a basic concept in topology. Imagine a branching Y. You\u2019re born at the bottom of the Y and your lifeline progresses up the stalk. The branch point is the moment your brain is scanned and the simulation has begun. Now there are two of you, a digital one (let\u2019s say the left branch) and a biological one (the right branch). They both inherit the memories, personality, and identity of the stalk. They both think they\u2019re you. Psychologically, they\u2019re equally real, equally valid. Once the simulation is fired up, the branches begin to diverge \u2026 Is it all one person, or two people, or a real person and a fake one? All of those and none of those. It\u2019s a Y.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>For those of us still among the biologically alive, there are more pressing matters, like, what happens when you and your paramour build yourselves the perfect new home for your perfect new love, and then you break up? It happens, you know. Even to famous architects, whose work survives the love affairs as a tribute to a broken heart. Leanne Shapton writes, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2016\/07\/04\/t-magazine\/monica-vitti-eileen-gray-le-corbusier-frank-lloyd-wright-houses.html?smid=tw-tmagazine&amp;smtyp=cur&amp;_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">My friend Niklas Maak, a writer and architecture critic, took me to a house on Sardinia where the actress Monica Vitti once lived<\/a>. The house, called La Cupola, was designed and built by the Italian architect Dante Bini for Vitti and her then boyfriend, the director Michelangelo Antonioni, in the late \u201960s \u2026 It was beautiful. It was a wreck. It blistered on the rocky hillside: a perfect dome, gray weathered concrete and granite connected by a bridge to an eroded staircase \u2026 Looking around the main room, it was easy to imagine Vitti stepping carefully, cinematically, barefoot down the banister-free staircase that Antonioni built to watch her descend. But by 1972, Vitti and Antonioni were at the end of their affair.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>While we\u2019re in an existential frame of mind, here\u2019s Robert Moor on how it feels to take a hike only to find that you\u2019re literally walking in circles: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/books\/page-turner\/the-dread-and-bewilderment-of-walking-in-circles?intcid=mod-latest\" target=\"_blank\">When you read about circular trails, they are nearly always described in a tone of existential despair. A trail, the naturalist Ernest Ingersoll wrote, is a \u2018happy promise to the anxious heart that you are going\u00a0somewhere, and are not aimlessly wandering in a circle.\u2019<\/a> A circular trail, then, is a cruel trick, a breach of trust \u2026 It has been thought for centuries that human beings have a natural tendency to walk in circles. In 1928, a biologist named Asa Schaeffer claimed to have shown experimentally that blindfolded people walk, run, swim, row, and drive automobiles in spiraling patterns, a phenomenon he attributed to a \u2018spiral mechanism\u2019 in the brain. The navigator William Gatty believed that people circled because of simple biological asymmetry: one leg tends to be longer or stronger than the other.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Fact: Voltaire didn\u2019t merely <em>play <\/em>the lottery. He gamed it. \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.laphamsquarterly.org\/luck\/voltaires-luck\" target=\"_blank\">At a dinner party he discussed the matter with a young mathematician and scientist, Charles-Marie de La Condamine. Together they began to wonder: What if one could buy all the tickets in a given draw as soon as they were issued?<\/a> No one individual could hope to, but a syndicate might. How this all worked is not clear from the remaining records, but work it did \u2026 One surviving piece of documentary evidence records that Voltaire \u2018acquired all the ticket books on payment of a deposit without filling them in.\u2019 Clearly he had an understanding of sorts with the notaries appointed to sell the tickets, and it seems that he did not have to pay the full price of the tickets, so certain were he and his associates\u2014and perhaps the notaries selling the tickets, presumably cut in on the action\u2014of winning.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>A new exhibition shows Dr. Seuss\u2019s insomnia-induced art, which \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/gallery\/2016\/jul\/13\/secret-midnight-paintings-of-dr-seuss-in-pictures?CMP=share_btn_tw\" target=\"_blank\">he called his \u2018Midnight Paintings\u2019. Although famous for his rhyming picture books, Geisel created topical and surrealist art, much of which was kept private until his death<\/a>. This 1955 oil painting, depicting a child\u2019s small place in the universe, was printed in <em>Collier\u2019s<\/em> magazine alongside a poem that read: \u201cFrom here on earth, from my small place, I ask of You way out in space: Please tell all men in every land \/ what You and I both understand. Please tell all men that peace is good. That\u2019s all that need be understood \/ in every world in Your great sky. We understand. Both You and I.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today in deeply disturbing ontological questions: in the not-too-distant future, we can reasonably expect to upload simulations of ourselves to computers to enjoy eternal digital afterlives. So, uh \u2026 as Michael Graziano asks: \u201cDid you cheat death, or merely replace yourself with a creepy copy? 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