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Maybe we should care about beauty because Nature cares about beauty the way she cares about symmetry. I’m just spitballing here, but maybe Emily Noether’s intellectual heir will find a link between the conservation of energy and Kolmogorov complexity (if this hasn’t already been shown).

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Maybe beauty is merely a word for "my brain has crunched vast amounts of data and concluded that something very, very fundamentally appealing is going on here and I shall call that by a word suggesting visual appeal because I assessed that appeal with my eyes."

Maybe "beauty" is ultimately a name for symmetry, where symmetry is a name for invariance under some transformation. And there is always a new type of transformation to consider and therefore a new and perhaps more subtle form of beauty.

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