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Reasonable Hope (Math) · September 18 · 3 min

Why Is There So Much Beauty?

Food could be merely fuel, sound merely information, and mathematics merely useful. Yet our world overflows with flavor, music, elegance, and wonder—and we possess the ability to appreciate them. Why does a world in which we need to survive contain so much beauty?

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Food could be merely fuel, sound merely information, and mathematics merely useful. Yet our world overflows with flavor, music, elegance, and wonder—and we possess the ability to appreciate them. Why does a world in which we need to survive contain so much beauty?

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