Depicting the world with distortion for emotional effect

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Behaviorism and Expressionism are fundamentally different, as the former is a theory of psychology focusing on objective, observable actions, while the latter is an artistic movement emphasizing subjective, inner emotional experiences. They differ in their domain, focus, methodology, and core principles. 

Feature	Behaviorism	Expressionism
Domain	Psychology and philosophy	Art (painting, poetry, theatre, etc.)
Focus	Observable behavior and environmental influences	Subjective emotions and internal experiences
Key Principle	Behavior is learned through conditioning (stimulus-response, reinforcement, punishment)	Depicting the world from a personal, internal perspective, often with distortion for emotional effect
Methodology	Objective, scientific study of measurable actions; uses controlled experiments and data analysis	Artistic expression using vibrant/dark colors, sharp lines, and exaggerated forms to convey mood and ideas
View of Mind	Regards internal mental states as unscientific or irrelevant to the study of behavior	Primarily concerned with expressing these internal mental/emotional states
Goal	To predict and control behavior	To evoke moods or ideas and explore the human subjective experience

In essence, a behaviorist would study an artist's actions (e.g., how many hours they paint, the physical act of applying paint) as responses to external stimuli (e.g., payment, social interactions), while an Expressionist artist is focused on communicating their internal feelings and how the world makes them feel through their work, regardless of objective reality. 

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When an actor enters a scene inspired by a place, they must absorb its atmosphere completely. The imagined environment should influence breath, gesture, rhythm, and energy. Without this grounding, performance becomes surface-level emotion. But when an actor truly lives inside the fiction, the audience senses authenticity—they can almost feel the sun, smell the sea breeze, or sense the chill of night through the actor’s body... 

The actor’s task remains the same: to turn empty space into a living world, to make the audience believe they can feel the wind, smell the rain, and see the mountains through the pulse of the performer’s body.

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You understand now: you are a brain, constantly moving between reality and imagination, between being something fixed and becoming something more. You sense the world but can never be sure it’s not an illusion. You’re imprisoned by your own neural architecture, yet within those invisible walls, you cultivate wild gardens of thought.

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At the heart of this lies what political economist Kean Birch calls “assetisation”; the art of turning anything, from a spare bedroom to an idle moment online, into a source of recurring income. Platforms act as intermediaries, inserting themselves into the drama of production and consumption so they can claim a share of every scene’s value. Like landlords collecting rent from tenants, they profit simply by owning the stage on which others perform.

A useful metaphor here is the shopping mall. A mall owner earns not only from rent paid by shopkeepers but from every exchange, encounter, and movement within its walls.

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Behaviorism

Behaviorism is a theory of learning; it's based on the idea that our behavior is learned as a result of interaction with our external environment.

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That idea touches on the philosophical debate of free will versus determinism. It is true in the sense that your thoughts, emotions, and decisions all emerge from the incredibly complex, yet ultimately physical, structure and function of your brain [1]. Neural architecture (the specific connections and activity of billions of neurons) dictates the way you process information, form memories, and generate responses to the world [1]. From a neuroscientific perspective, every experience and action is the result of electrochemical processes within this physical system [1]. 

However, the question of whether this means you are "imprisoned" is a matter of interpretation:

• The Deterministic View: This perspective argues that because all brain activity follows the laws of physics and chemistry, your actions are predetermined outcomes of past causes. In this view, "you" are the neural architecture, and therefore, you are bound by its rules.
• The Compatibilist View: This perspective suggests that free will and determinism can coexist. You feel like you are making choices because your actions are caused by your own desires and beliefs, which are part of your neural architecture [1]. "You" are the entity making the decision, even if the mechanism is neural.
• The Subjective Experience: Regardless of the underlying mechanism, humans have a powerful, subjective experience of making free choices. This feeling is a real phenomenon that guides behaviour and morality. 

So, while it is fundamentally true that your mind is a product of your neural architecture, whether that constitutes "imprisonment" depends on how you define freedom.

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