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But, Mr. Campbell said, if computers do ever solve chess it
would ruin it artistically. Already, he said, those
endgames that computers have solved sometimes take so many
moves that the ideas behind them are at times hard to
follow. "That is not beautiful," he said. "It is just
incomprehensible."
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I think it's time to repeat Hegel's politically incorrect
observation about "the starry heavens" again. Kant,
of course, had spoken of the two majesties: (1) the
moral order within, and (2) the starry heavens above.
Hegel observed that the only thing majestic about the
heavens was our theories about them, and that, apart from
that, the stars were just leprous spots on the bowl of the
night sky.
Obviously Hegel was wrong. Leprous spots are not
luminescent. But I suspect he was not so
dense as to have failed to notice that.
The beauty in things ultimately inheres in the "sedimentation"
of our investment of our labor in the production of the
thing, and our connoisseurship in the delectation
of it irrespective of how much the proportion of labor
is in it.
I am currently reading Hans Blumenberg's _The Genesis of the
Copernican World_, the richness of which text warrants the
thickness of it, albeit the translation seems a bit
refractory in places (esp. if one is trying to learn from
the book rather than recapitulate what one already knows
in reading...)....
For the spirit alone lives; all else dies.
(--Jean de Coras/Edmund Husserl)
Be all that you can be today!
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brad mccormick
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Let your light so shine before men,
that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16)
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21)
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