Registered: Jul 2007
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I am interested in two areas which blend Wolfram's theories with aesthetics.

1. How far have the musical extensions gone beyond the 'wolfram tones?' I have no use for them as cell phone rings but I listen to them constantly -- often in conjunction with complicated fractal screensavers. The effect is quite astonishing and periodically "religious" in nature. The mind rubs right up against the complexity-intuition that Wolfram repeatedly advocates in NKS.

The attempt to "follow along" with the music puts one experientially at the leading edge of a novel wave. Once this has become natural it is possible to recontextualize the entire field of music. Suddenly "merely human, repetitive" songs are a little bit trite. Naturalized complexity music provides a distinct inner impression of carrying neural patterns forward, enhancing the sharpness of the mind. fMRI scans of people following such musical patterns would be fascinating.

I am looking forward to a day when digital radio can provide me with continous, streaming, never-before-heard, novel-and-pleasing patterns of music. I am also hungry for these same patterns to be increasingly deployed to 'poetically' select words that match the music on a number of variables.

2. What is the progress in visual arts? I am, of course, awaiting the push-button generation of highly pleasing, innovative, "naturally proportioned and unpredictable" combinations of image-elements. I see no reason why computational software could not exceed the average human capacity to generate unanticipated and pleasurable art.

The circulation of such materials in the general public will represent a major social leap for the broad interest in and acceptance of the principles of computational complexity.

This aesthetic branch of the NKS forum appears to have been largely dormant for the past little while. I will check back in periodically to discover if someone can update me on where we might in regard to my anticipation of artistic successes.

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