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The big weakness of the analogy from the OP is that music is universally accessible, while high level mathematics is not. The potential audience for the human p
by VladVladikoff 10d ago
The big weakness of the analogy from the OP is that music is universally accessible, while high level mathematics is not. The potential audience for the human playing the piano is far larger than the human solving complex mathematical theorems.
- piltdownman 9d agoIf fumbling through 'hot cross buns' on the recorder is roughly analogous to recitation of multiplication tables, then Gould playing Shostakovich can certainly be referenced as one would the Feynman Lectures on Physics. Certainly more effort has been put into exploring the relationship between... Bach and Godel than your surmise suggests; SHRDLU, Toy of Man's Designing! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del,_Escher,_Bach https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del,_Escher,_Bach