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 For example, out of the blue, someone starts to believe that their family have been replaced by impostors.

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, thanks

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 For example, out of the blue, someone starts to believe that their family have been replaced by impostors.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 logic

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