
26 | Ge Wang on Artful Design, Computers, and Music
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
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The Artful Way to Drink Your Coffee
I think the principles in artful design really was inspired by kind of Perry's principle, which to me said that there is a level of specificity in precision, but only to the extent it makes sense. And if we expect too much, if we try to formalize it too much, it actually loses something of its essence. Have you worked on the automation of the composing of the music? Do we have artificial intelligence writing scores for the laptop orchestra? I think it's still a pretty open problem, but also goes back to the question of meaning.
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