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Ep: 99 David Deutsch‘s ”The Beginning of Infinity” - a retrospective in 99 minutes
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Art, Music and Beauty Are All Domains of Objective Knowledge
Beauty is something humans have tried to surround themselves with since time immemorial. People enjoy objective beauty because we are trying to signal across the wide gap tween us and other humans. Some art rejects the notion of beauty altogether and exists rather to provoke or make a political point. The museum of modern art, with its duchamp urenals, doesn't contain objectively better art. Flowers are attractive - but so are people. Insects coevolved with flowers, and so the flowers evolve to be beautiful. And we humans seek out objective beauty also. So we find flowers beautiful because they are actually, in reality, beautiful. It's not just our opinion. Evolution design them
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