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From: rolandi@sparc9.hri.com (Walter Rolandi)
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Subject: Re: emergent properties
Keywords: Sparseness_Theory
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Date: 5 Oct 90 14:22:15 GMT
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In article <3560@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU>,
minsky@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Marvin Minsky) writes:


> It seems to me that njs identifies awe, mystery, and the aesthetic
> experience as "human".  Well, I beg to differ.  Those, in my view are
> the barren world of infantile thought.  Yes, I don't like "beauty"
> because I have certain suspicions about what's happening "I like
> something without knowing why".....


Does this mean that you do like things if/when you know why?  Would you
say that you know how to know why you like things?


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