sublimation (uncountable)
- The transition of a substance from the solid phase directly to the vapor state such that it does not pass through the intermediate liquid phase.
- The transformation of an impulse into something socially constructive.
sublime
From Middle French sublime, from Latin sublīmis (“high”), from sub- (“up to", "upwards”) + uncertain, often identified with Latin līmis, ablative singular of līmus (“oblique”) or līmen (“threshold", "entrance", "lintel”)
beauty
"There is evidence that perceptions of beauty are evolutionarily
determined, that things, aspects of people and landscapes considered
beautiful are typically found in situations likely to give enhanced
survival of the perceiving human's genes." [also
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamarckism]
"The classical Greek noun for "beauty" was κάλλος,
kallos, and the adjective for "beautiful" was καλός,
kalos. The Koine Greek word for beautiful was ὡραῖος,
hōraios, an adjective etymologically coming from the word ὥρα,
hōra, meaning "hour". In Koine Greek, beauty was thus associated with "being of one's hour""
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beauty
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aesthetics
"... Schmidhuber's theory explicitly distinguishes between what's beautiful and what's interesting, stating that interestingness corresponds to the first derivative of subjectively perceived beauty. Here the premise is that any observer continually tries to improve the predictability and compressibility of the observations by discovering regularities such as repetitions and symmetries and fractal self-similarity. Whenever the observer's learning process (which may be a predictive neural network; see also Neuroesthetics) leads to improved data compression such that the observation sequence can be described by fewer bits than before, the temporary interestingness
of the data corresponds to the number of saved bits. This compression
progress is proportional to the observer's internal reward, also called
curiosity reward. A reinforcement learning algorithm is used to maximize future expected reward by learning to execute action sequences that cause additional interesting
input data with yet unknown but learnable predictability or regularity."
"The fact that judgments of beauty and judgments of truth both are influenced by processing fluency,
which is the ease with which information can be processed, has been
presented as an explanation for why beauty is sometimes equated with
truth."
"There have also been relatively successful attempts with regard to chess and music.
A relation between Max Bense's
mathematical formulation of aesthetics in terms of "redundancy" and
"complexity" and theories of musical anticipation was offered using the
notion of Information Rate."
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