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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 expressed a similar concern a decade or so ago when he learnt of some "computer program" able to "generate Mozart... (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 expressed a similar concern a decade or so ago when he learnt of some "computer program" able to "generate Mozart... (read more)