Brian Eno
speaker
1,303 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Oct 2025
last heard 21 Jul
Brian Eno’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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When we look at children and we watch them playing, we don't think, oh, they're just wasting their time.
They should do something more serious.
We realize that when children play, they're learning.
They're understanding about materials, about social relationships, about their own bodies, their own minds.
about where they live, all of those things that are very important to understand.
And they do that infallibly and with a huge appetite.
That's what children like doing.
And we understand, all of us understand that that's the way they learn things.
Art is grown-up play.
It's a way of imagining things and imagining what they would feel like and imagining how they connect to other things that we know about and then feeding that knowledge back into our lives and into our relationships.
Yes, so they have a bad reputation because they're very hard to quantify and measure.
And of course, science wants things that are easily comparable and easily describable in some kind of language of quantity and measure.
Feelings, because they're subjective, are very difficult to do that with.
However, the first response we have to most things is a feeling response, particularly if they're unfamiliar things.
What's the first thing that happens when you meet somebody
you kind of form an impression of them quite quickly.
You think he looks like a decent person.
He looks quite friendly.
He doesn't look hostile.
I think I could get on with him.
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