6) THE ILLUSION OF PASSION
But what about the arts?
In 1994 I interviewed a professor of music, David Cope, from UC Santa Cruz for Mondo 2000, a magazine which no longer exists. (Magazines only exist now is small pamphlets).
David wrote software that even then would make classical music compositions. They were good then.
I looked up what he is up to now.
He couldn’t get a record label to produce his music. So he did a test: would classical experts tried to tell the difference between his software’s compositions and Mozart.
Not only could they not tell the difference, they thought his compositions were more beautiful.
What is beauty without soul?
It’s a poetic question but it has a pragmatic answer: it’s the music written by David Cope’s computer program.
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