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#aesthetics

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Coach Pāṇini ®

- #Politics: how we may logically extend Ethics to the larger group, the science of creating and managing such groups consistent with ethical behavior and logical recognition of the metaphysical entities—humans and the community made up of humans

- #Aesthetics: the appreciation of symbols and images of metaphysical reality, which are pleasing to the extent that they are logically consistent and that they inform us about ethical interaction and/or political harmony

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Miguel Afonso Caetano

"AI does not possess a self. It lacks personhood. It has no experience of subjectivity. So any art it creates will inevitably feel empty and hollow.

Any human quality it possesses will be based on imitation, pretense, and deception. None of it is real.

AI doesn’t even have a direct sense of objectivity—its knowledge of objects is all secondhand, assimilated through data. This results in a lack of depth or felt significance in any artistic work it creates.

That why Slop is inevitable in an Age of AI.

But this will not stop it from dominating the aesthetics of our time. The billionaires who are funding AI will make sure that it shows up everywhere.

But the worst phase arrives when human artists start imitating Slop. That’s already happening.

The Slop aesthetic is so pervasive now that even realistic photographs of actual events are staged to resemble AI works."

honest-broker.com/p/the-new-ae

The Honest Broker · The New Aesthetics of SlopBy Ted Gioia
#AI#GenerativeAI#AISlop
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💧🌏 Greg Cocks

Scaling In Branch Thickness And The Fractal Aesthetic Of Trees [In Art From Da Vinci To Mondrian]
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academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/art <-- shared paper
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[not my usual fare, but love the spatial mathematical components, although the maths is way over my head!]
#spatial #maths #mathematics #art #painting #representation #daVinci #LeonardodaVinci #MurraysLaw #tree #vegetation #fractal #fractals #α #biology #artwork #radiusscalingexponent #branches #branching #nature #naturalpatterns #proportions #physiology #Mondrian #aesthetic #aesthetics #scale #scaling

a) da Vinci’s sketch of a tree illustrates the principle that combined thickness is preserved at different stages of ramification. b) Transects A and B have the same combined thickness and so limbs a and b together must have the same thickness as c. This has been taken to imply that c) combined cross-sectional area (⁠πR²⁠) is preserved across branching. Likewise, d) such transects can count the number of branches n that have radius approximately r to derive a fractal scaling relationship. Source: (a) from Institut de France Manuscript M, p. 78v.
sketch from one of Leonardo da Vinci's notebooks illustrating his original rules of trees
The scaling exponent α (a) determines the amount of detail at a given resolution and (b) proportions among adjoining boughs.
Trees in artwork across centuries, cultures, and styles exhibit fractal scaling. a) carved stone window screen of Sidi Saiyyed Mosque, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India (1573 CE). b) Cherry Blossoms, Matsumura Goshun (1752–1811), ink on paper. c) L’Arbre de Vie (Tree of life), Gustav Klimt (1909), oil on canvas. d) data and inference of α±95% CI in two replicate measurements for each work along with simulated and living trees. Dotted vertical lines indicate the cutoff for excluding small-scale effects. Diameters from simulated and living trees are divided by this minimum value and therefore the horizontal axis is unitless.
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Flipboard Culture Desk

How important is beauty to scientists? Most conversations about this revolve around the things we can see or hear, like photos from the James Webb Space Telescope, or the way physicists perceive some equations as elegant. Sociologists Bridget Ritz and Brandon Vaidyanathan spoke to thousands of scientists about the subject, and discovered they're also motivated by a third kind of beauty: The aesthetic experience of understanding itself. "In our surveys and interviews, when asked where they find beauty in their work, scientists regularly pointed to times when they grasped the hidden order, inner logic or causal mechanisms of natural phenomena," write Ritz and Vaidyanathan for Aeon. "These moments, one UK physicist told us, are ‘like looking into the face of God for non-religious people – how you can look at something and think, oh my God, that’s how things actually work, that’s how things are!’"

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AeonHow the search for beauty drives scientific enquiry | Aeon EssaysWe surveyed thousands of scientists in four countries and learned just how important beauty is to them
#Beauty#Science#Research
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Sunflower Björnskalle 🌻

Dear @philosophy, I've been meaning to ask you something. We talk a lot about the epistemology of ethics and aesthetics, even the ethics of epistemology has become popular, but something I haven't heard much about is the #aesthetics of #epistemology. Where can we find beauty in our theories of knowledge? What kinds of beauty? Is it something like the aesthetics of mathematics and physics or something totally different? What examples have you come across?

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