13: "Seekers of truth are seekers of universal beauty. Seekers of beauty are seekers of personal truth. When you look at the stars you can’t help but wonder how much they are maybe the same: truth and beauty."
Interpreted carefully, I believe this is true at a deep and precise level! Seekers of truth are indeed seekers of beauty, because the sensation of beauty likely is all about your brain making accurate predictions of novel sensory input that is appropriately challenging. A brain that just experienced strong beauty is also brain that just made a correct prediction of the sensory input that it was about to experience. Furthermore, this sensory input was sufficiently challenging that this was a non-trivial task for the brain. Thus, beauty is triggered upon successful prediction of future non-trivial sensory input. It is the discovery of sensory truth. I started my substack primarily to write about this view. There are a few subtleties as I believe that there are beauties that can be experience purely in thought, but the point survives!
13: "Seekers of truth are seekers of universal beauty. Seekers of beauty are seekers of personal truth. When you look at the stars you can’t help but wonder how much they are maybe the same: truth and beauty."
Interpreted carefully, I believe this is true at a deep and precise level! Seekers of truth are indeed seekers of beauty, because the sensation of beauty likely is all about your brain making accurate predictions of novel sensory input that is appropriately challenging. A brain that just experienced strong beauty is also brain that just made a correct prediction of the sensory input that it was about to experience. Furthermore, this sensory input was sufficiently challenging that this was a non-trivial task for the brain. Thus, beauty is triggered upon successful prediction of future non-trivial sensory input. It is the discovery of sensory truth. I started my substack primarily to write about this view. There are a few subtleties as I believe that there are beauties that can be experience purely in thought, but the point survives!
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