Re: Intelligence, Aesthetics and Bayesianism: Game over!

From: Bruno Marchal <marchal.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 11:23:22 +0200

Hi Tom,

>
> Nice. I see beauty in the Mandelbrot set. However, there seems to be
> a lot of deja vu, similar repetition on a theme.


Right. But full of subtle variations.
It is all normal to have a lot of deja vu when you make a journey
across a multiverse ...



> I have never been
> able to find anything resembling a beautiful girl,

You are not looking close enough, and also, the zoom movie remains a
pure third person description. Consciousness is more related to a
internal flux or to some stroboscopic inside views in the Mandelbrot
Set (assuming the conjecture).
It is a bit like looking to a picture of a galaxy. You will not see
beautiful girls, unless you look close enough, and from the right
perspective.



> or even a mother-in-
> law, or a white rabbit. This seems to go against your conjecture.

(remember also that "not seeing something" is not an argument of
not-existence, like seeing something is not an argument for existence).
If you want to see a white rabbit (*the* white rabbit), the best
consists in looking at

http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5XfQWKgf4M&feature=related

As for the mother-in-law, I am not sure about your motivations ...
(Holiday jokes :)

Bruno


>
> Tom
>
> On Aug 12, 8:30 am, Bruno Marchal <marc....domain.name.hidden> wrote:
>> On 09 Aug 2008, at 09:44, Tom Caylor wrote:
>>
>>> I believe that nature is not primarily functional. It is primarily
>>> beautiful.
>>> And this from a theist?  Yes!  This is actually to the core point of
>>> why I am a theist.  I don't blame people for not believing in God if
>>> they think God is about functionality.
>>
>> If you remember my conjecture that the Mandelbrot Set, (well, its  
>> complement in the complex plane), is Turing complete (that is  
>> equivalent in some sense to a universal dovetailing), then zooming in
>>  
>> it gives a picture of the arithmetical multiverse or of the universal
>>  
>> deployment. And I do find most of them wonderfully beautiful. Here is
>>  
>> my favorite on youtube:
>>
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0nmVUU_7IQ
>>
>> Is that not wonderful? Awesome ?
>>
>> Bruno
>>
>> http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/
> >
>
http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/


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