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>From: santas@inf.ethz.ch (Philip Santas)
Subject: Re: Hypothesis: I am a Transducer (Formerly "Virtual Grounding")
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In article <1992Jun5.045522.19139@news.media.mit.edu> nlc@media.mit.edu (Nick Cassimatis) writes:
>santas@inf.ethz.ch (Philip Santas) writes:
>>
>>There is a relationship between arts and physics or mathematics.
>>Impressionists were influnced by the QM and Cubists by Relativity.
>>Xenakis is influenced from Markovian Proceses.
>>Ancient Greek statues and temples obey to certain eucledian abstract rules.
>>The list can be very long.
>
>Though the cubists and the impressionists said they were influenced by
>those areas of physics, I really doubt it.  First of all, how many of
>them could understand physics?  

Van Gogh's style was definitely influenced by the theory of quanta.
The temples in anccient Athens were built following mathematical models.
The same is with computer music and Xenakis. Enjoying them of course
does not require such knowledge: driving a car does not need theory
thermodynamics, but motor designers have this very deep into their mind.

>Second, I think their talking about
>physics is on a par with those people who call the 20th centruy an age
>of anxiety and then say that the results of physics were part of the
>cause of this. 

Humans had fear of many things durings during the centuries.
But poor journalism and superficial knowledge of reality are responsible
for the fact you refer to.

>QM and relativity
>(along with consciousness and a few others) seem to be these big
>bogeys that are thrown into a discussion whenever someone want's to
>interject some despair or pessimism or mysticicism.

Or to write some papers and improve his academic position :-)

Philip Santas

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