Brain Hardwired For Poetry

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/02/170217095857.htm

http://www.wired.co.uk/article/google-ai-language-create

This is of particular interest to me and it would be very interesting to see any similar findings related to the Tao Te Ching and other types of poetry. The study corroborates a variety of studies in recent years all indicating that, contrary to what Noam Chomsky argued for decades, language is based on pattern matching with grammar being acquired the hard way according to its proximity to syntax. What that technobabble means is beauty and humor are two expressions of the same emergent phenomena that is intrinsic to existence itself and the laws of nature rather than merely being subjective. Our language, aesthetic appreciation, mathematics, etc. all use essentially the same parts of the brain because they are all different expressions of the same essential underlying patterns and understanding the simple systems logic this suggests could explain any number of things including how to create an artificial intelligence.

Google's language AI translator invented its own language to make its job easier and a related study in AI indicated by merely feeding an AI different values over a wide range they could rapidly figure out what works best without the AI having to ever figure out or know why it works so well. Both illustrate again what it means for everything that exists to obey simple pattern matching rules or yin-yang dynamics including abstract logic itself meaning it is just a matter of time before people finally put all the pieces together in a more coherent whole. Taoists like to say, "Its the simple shit that always gets you" and that appears to be the case even in the high tech world of artificial intelligence where sometimes its possible to focus so much on the details nobody can see the forest through the trees.