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Jiang uses the experiment rhetorically to argue that modern prejudices about how the world works prematurely close the mind to interesting possibilities.
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Possibility
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Jiang explicitly agrees that art shows what is possible and thereby forces an expansion of imagination through intensified feeling.
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Jiang defines possibility as emerging from ambiguity and economy, with economy meaning the use of as few words as possible to describe as much as possible.
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Jiang says the larger lesson of the Piccarda scenario is that where there is real will, there is always some way through the situation even if the exact tactic is hypothetical.
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Jiang defines his current research posture as exploratory possibility testing rather than rigorous academic specialization.
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"...world works and so we shut up our minds to these possibilities what's your impression of that but like but like when we saw..."
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"I guess I wanted to expand on these ideas then would art would art show you what is possible and therefore expand your imagination...."
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"That's right. You're forced to expand your imagination. In order to have all these feelings. Right? And the more feelings you have the more..."
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"...of paradox. Second idea that we will be looking at is possibilities. Possibilities are created by two concepts, ambiguity as well as economy. Economy,..."
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"Ambiguity means that a sentence or word can contain multiple meanings. Okay. So these are the two major literary devices we will be studying..."
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"he has to go home now you understand it's like you can't deal with this crap right but you see what's happened just the..."
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"back home i think okay well imagine two situations the first situation is you go back to the duke and says your sister's crazy..."
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"...as i'm curious as to what's going on let's try different possibilities and let's see what sticks as opposed to like this rigorous academic..."
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