Faith Hahn
@onefaithlove
Faith Hahn
@onefaithlove
Therefore, expecting an algorithmic description to instantiate the quality it maps is like expecting the mathematical formula of gravity to physically exert weight. […] This also implies that qualia are not puzzles that can be solved by increasingly elegant syntax. Instead, they represent the intrinsic, underlying substrate that makes the semantic
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The qualities of the Met’s new pieces—literalness, signposting, pat plotlines, an impatience with the slightest ambiguity—are key tenets of second-screen television. They are also irreconcilable with good opera, in which text and music subvert one another and pieces permit manifold interpretations. In Don Giovanni, for example, Mozart quite
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