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>From: smoliar@hilbert.iss.nus.sg (stephen smoliar)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: Intelligence, awareness, and esthetics
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Date: 27 Apr 92 23:16:30 GMT
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In article <1992Apr27.144209.26721@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU>
baker@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Andrew Baker) writes:
>In article <1992Apr22.115737.27938@nuscc.nus.sg> smoliar@iss.nus.sg (stephen
>smoliar) writes:
>>In article <1992Apr21.155531.23910@ncsa.uiuc.edu> rbrown@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Rich
>>Brown -- Neither) writes:
>>>Shannon's _Information_Theory_and_Aesthetic_Perception_ contains some
>>>interesting analyses of how one might actually digitize the rate of
>>>information
>>>transfer associated with a work of art.
>>
>>I have just spent the last twenty minutes browsing through library card
>>catalogs on Melvyl (including your precious Harvard Union Catalog, Mikhail)
>>and was unable to turn up any evidence of this book.
>
>AUTHOR:   Moles, Abraham A.
>TITLE:    Thbeorie de l'information et perception esth`etique. English
>          Information theory and esthetic perception [by] Abraham Moles.
>            Translated by Joel F. Cohen.
>IMPRINT:  Urbana, University of Illinois Press, 1966.
>          217 p. illus. 24 cm.
>TOPICS:   Information theory in aesthetics.
>NOTES:    Bibliography: p. [210]-214.
>          Language: English   Year: 1966
>          Item CSUGAKF6770-B (Books)  AKF6770 (NOTIS)
>
>


This would certainly explain why any search under Shannon would be futile!
Yes, for a while Abraham Moles had quite a reputation among the music theory
set.  However, two points are worth mentioning.  The first (just for the
record) is that it is unclear that Moles' interpretation of Shannon's work
is particularly consistent with Shannon's (which is why I wrote all those
articles trying to clarify Shannon's position);  so I am not sure how much
this book really has to do with "information theory" (at least the way most
of the community uses the term).  The other point is that Moles never really
went down with the music theory crowd very well, again, basically for reasons
I have tried to post even before I knew we were actually talking about him.
There are just too many things he could NOT explain adequately for him to
attract much of a following.
-- 
Stephen W. Smoliar; Institute of Systems Science
National University of Singapore; Heng Mui Keng Terrace
Kent Ridge, SINGAPORE 0511
Internet:  smoliar@iss.nus.sg


