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You Gotta Believe It To See It
Beauty, bytes, God—or all of the above
Nobody knows who first said “beauty is in the eye of the beholder,” but I’d like to have a few words with them. They neglected some very serious issues.
Want to know why I said that? Take this simple quiz.
When you stand in front of a Jackson Pollock painting, what do you see?
a) A bunch of spilled paint
2) A work of art
iii) A crime scene
Get it? At least three wildly different, legitimate responses.
Now just swap out the Jackson Pollock painting for Reality Itself, i.e., infinity. You know — all THIS. The whole shebang. (Gesturing with barely controlled frustration here.)
Why would we not expect wildly different responses to Reality Itself? Because it is just as vivid as a Jackson Pollock painting.
We are living in different universes entirely
For some people, the universe they see, hanging on the wall here in the Gallery of Cosmic Art, is chaotic… unnerving… offering nothing but constant change and surprise, with NO One in charge:
