Re: Intelligence, Aesthetics and Bayesianism: Game over!

2008-07-30 Thread marc . geddes
On Jul 30, 1:22 am, "Stathis Papaioannou" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've long been puzzled by the phenomenon of delusion in intelligent, > rational people who develop psychotic illness. For example, out of the > blue, someone starts to believe that their family have been replaced > by impo

Re: Intelligence, Aesthetics and Bayesianism: Game over!

2008-07-30 Thread marc . geddes
>But what is aesthetics the study of? Of beauty? That's it isn't it? But how can something as plastic as "beauty" have any kind of terminal value that you and I can both share? Do aesthetic terminal values decide where something fits into "aesthetic reality" or something like that? By the way, th

Re: Intelligence, Aesthetics and Bayesianism: Game over!

2008-07-30 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
2008/7/30 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> I've long been puzzled by the phenomenon of delusion in intelligent, >> rational people who develop psychotic illness. For example, out of the >> blue, someone starts to believe that their family have been replaced >> by impostors. Their facility with deductive

Re: Intelligence, Aesthetics and Bayesianism: Game over!

2008-07-30 Thread Günther Greindl
Marc, > Yes, good Kim and Gunther- I’m now adopting the radical belief that > intelligence has a lot more to do with art, than math ;) > snip > So throw away all those math books , forget about Bayes, and start > studying the arts: painting, music and so on and so forth. The idea is that good