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Thank you, I couldn't remember the title. Here it is if anybody want to read it: http://www.baen.com/chapters/W200011/0671319744___1.htm http://www.baen.com/c
by LucaDuval 17y ago
Thank you, I couldn't remember the title.
Here it is if anybody want to read it:
http://www.baen.com/chapters/W200011/0671319744___1.htm http://www.baen.com/chapters/W200011/0671319744___1.htm
It is strange the way in which a random quote stays in our mind for years, I still remembered the following almost verbatim.
"Artists have been deluding themselves for centuries with the notion that they create.
In fact they do nothing of the sort.
They discover.
Inherent in the nature of reality are a number of combinations of musical tones that will be perceived as pleasing by a human central nervous system.
For millennia we have been discovering them, implicit in the universe—and telling ourselves that we `created' them.
To create implies infinite possibility, to discover implies finite possibility.
As a species I think we will react poorly to having our noses rubbed in the fact that we are discoverers and not creators."
- yannis 17y agoThis is very similar to the philosophical implications that all mathematics are out there and we are just discovering them. In this light one can always use the example of the infinite monkeys typing random characters and producing all the works of Shakespeare. If you do the Maths though you will need more time than the predicted life-span of our Universe. Thanks for the link though very interesting.
- wglb 17y agoAlong this line, perhaps you have seen this Elizabeth Gilbert video: http://www.ted.com/talks/elizabeth_gilbert_on_genius.html http://www.ted.com/talks/elizabeth_gilbert_on_genius.html