
David Deutsch on The Fun Criterion, Objective Beauty & Artificial Intelligence
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The Coevolution of Beauty
Coevolution is the process of reciprocal evolutionary change that occurs among groups of species as they interact with another. In order to make something like flowers be more attractive to a completely different species like insects it had to reach out for objective standards of beauty. The competition also was between authentic flowers that had pollen and flower like species that didn't have pollen. And between insects that could differentiate the two and those that couldn't. That's why only insects appreciate flowers and humans. We can detect objective beauty because we as humans are universal explainers, he says. He then explains some common objections in the chapter when we talk about this. Some people say we like symmetry and bright colors and high contrast for