Ant McWatt stated June 9th:
Why bother writing "Zen & the _Art_ of Motorcycle Maintenance" if it's all
been said before?
Platt replied June 9th:
Progress in philosophy, yes. Progress in art, no.
Ant McWatt comments:
According to ZMM, every human endeavour is an art form that can be improved
on.
Moreover, I think you're making beauty an ideal type of static Platonic form
which would put you outside the MOQ.
Best wishes,
Anthony.
Quoting Platt June 8th:
Progress in art? Not in my book. Beauty transcends time. It belies our
assumptions
of growth and progress. Are our buildings more beautiful than the Parthenon?
Are our churches more beautiful than Chartes? Are our dishes more beautiful
than
Greek vases? Are our musical compositions more beautiful than Mozart's?
Beauty
doesnt evolve and improve with time. The animal paintings by unknown early
humans in the caves of Lascaux have never been surpassed.
Anyway, why beauty shows up in the equations of physics has never been
explained by those who reduce everything to quantum fluctuations.
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