The argument that you would loose interest if you could explain boredom away, which is what I have to conclude from your stance:
All novelty will be used up, all existence will become boring, the remaining differences no more important than shades of pixels in a video game.
seems a bit thin to me. Does a magician loose interest because he knows every single trick that wows the audience?
Does the musician who has spent a lifetime studying the intricacies of Bach's partita No 2 loose interest just because he can deconstruct it entirely?
Douglas Hoefstadter e... (read more)
The argument that you would loose interest if you could explain boredom away, which is what I have to conclude from your stance:
seems a bit thin to me. Does a magician loose interest because he knows every single trick that wows the audience?
Does the musician who has spent a lifetime studying the intricacies of Bach's partita No 2 loose interest just because he can deconstruct it entirely?
Douglas Hoefstadter e... (read more)