Kartik Venkatarama

I think the most salient point made in the article is one of how a scene is framed: what is included and what is excluded. This is as subjective as it gets, and also as real as consciousness gets. Psychologists, neuroscientists, and others who've tried to answer the question of what consciousness means have varied opinions, but almost always converge on one concept: attention. What sensory inputs triggers the mind into an attentive state? In short, what do we focus on? What do we pay no attention to, either consciously or unconsciously? The second thing psychology teaches us is just how

Ian, you make very valid points, no doubt. IMHO though, hardly any reasonable person would disagree with any of your statements. It is easy I think for everyone to agree that compositing different scenes or even identical scenes captured on different days without full disclosure is unethical - let alone generating pixels that existed only in cyberspace. Artistic freedom is one thing - artistic integrity means exploring one's freedom with full honesty to oneself and one's audience. However, as in everything else in life, the line is not quite so easily drawn. There are p