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Beauty and the Brain: The Science of Neuroaesthetics with Dr. Anjan Chatterjee
Beauty At Work
Beauty and Morality - Is Beauty a Heuristic?
Many people have come to believe that an equation, a mathematical equation or a theory that has beautiful equations is much more likely to be true than a theory that doesn't. So it raises this peculiar question as to whether we should try to overcome our judgments of beauty. I think you can be willingly seduced, but you recognize that you are being seduced. And especially when we're talking about people, some of the words that are used associated with beauty are things like charming and glamorous and enchanting. Those words all come from magic. Beauty casts a spell on us. It's not always obvious that parsimony and the simplest system is the best. Biological systems often end up being designed with
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