Why God Exists | Fine-tuning, Beauty, and Discoverability

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(2023-05-22, 04:34 PM)Larry Wrote: I’m curious as to how you would define beauty
Is it objective or purely subjective?

Ah I've had a similar discussion many times with friends who majored in the arts! It seems unfair to say there is a pure, clear hierarchy of works that is "good" versus "bad"...OTOH I've seen people take a video game that is mostly about killing monsters with a questionable plot and say it's one of the great works of modern literature...

So I think it's the same with Beauty - I recently was in a discussion with a neuroscientist who did feel that pursuing elegance in science has yielded fruit and so should be continued as a practice. And as someone who did a lot of mathematical proofs while in school I do think there's something to the idea that mathematics has some kind of inherent, Platonic Beauty...but OTOH I know people who did maths who had less love for the subject so is it really something objective...especially when you consider others who just hated maths and never saw the point of proofs...

So a long way of saying I don't know. Big Grin
'Historically, we may regard materialism as a system of dogma set up to combat orthodox dogma...Accordingly we find that, as ancient orthodoxies disintegrate, materialism more and more gives way to scepticism.'

- Bertrand Russell


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RE: Why God Exists | Fine-tuning, Beauty, and Discoverability - by Sciborg_S_Patel - 2023-05-22, 05:25 PM

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