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Ambient Meaning: Mood, Vibe, SystemDissertation, Harvard University. 2018.This dissertation will present a mathematically informed interpretation of a classically romantic literary-theoretic thesis: that a work of literature can aesthetically communicate an ineffably complex holistic understanding of the real world, which we might call the work’s ‘aesthetic meaning.’ Drawing on a generalization of ‘deep learning’ (“artificial intuition”) systems and on elementary algorithmic information theory, we describe a kind or aspect of aesthetic meaning – ‘ambient meaning’ – th…Read more
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Harvard UniversityGraduate student
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
Areas of Interest
Metaphilosophy |
Philosophy of Mind |
Aesthetics |
Meta-Ethics |
20th Century Philosophy |