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> This paper also got me thinking if this mechanism might explain why we enjoy listening to music. Music follows and breaks rules, which our brain continuously

> This paper also got me thinking if this mechanism might explain why we enjoy listening to music. Music follows and breaks rules, which our brain continuously tries to predict and most of the time it succeeds. The link between predictability and art has been raised various times in the literature, even before Schmidhuber, but he had particularly interesting ideas about it: http://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/beauty.html http://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/beauty.html

jcims 7y ago
Great episode with Schmidhuber on Lex Fridman’s podcast. https://youtu.be/3FIo6evmweo https://youtu.be/3FIo6evmweo I’m coming at this from a career in infosec, never heard of the guy but really enjoyed his thought processes.
temporaryPotato 7y ago
> This paper also got me thinking if this mechanism might explain why we enjoy listening to music. Music follows and breaks rules, which our brain continuously tries to predict and most of the time it succeeds. I think that this explains my style to some extent [1]. One of the main themes behind what I write is that it should sound 1) original (less familiar) and 2) there needs to be an interplay between musical closure and tension, especially with half tones. [1] https://soundcloud.com/phillip-janvanzyl/spiral https://soundcloud.com/phillip-janvanzyl/spiral