17th November 2005, 4:52 PM
How so? Even aesthetically, the whole must be the sum of it's parts. The parts DO include the human brain when it comes to this mind you. Since human brains tend to differ in terms of experiences, that basically leads directly to something I've been saying for a while now. There is absolutely no reason to use numbers to "score" aesthetics.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)