Mechanics of Aesthetics
Åsmund FolkestadA theoretical physicist’s contemplations on Beauty in a world of computation.
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The best books I read in 2025
This year I quit my academic career in theoretical physics, moved to San Francisco to join a startup, wrote a gargantuan essay on the incompleteness of physics, and ramped up my dabbling in visual arts. Reading books was on the back-burner....
Equations that demand beauty
Despite excelling in his single year of schooling, George Green wasn’t allowed to continue. His father instead wanted him in the bakery and—soon after—the mill. So nine-year old George didn’t have a choice. Kneading breads and grinding grai...
My holy text
Recently I finished the little booklet Pragmatism by the great philosopher and psychologist William James. It’s a series of lectures on the philosophical tradition of pragmatism, delivered in Boston in 1907, three years before his death....
Revising God
In 1882, a German man said something that resonated with people of his era. It’s a sentence so over-quoted that I’m almost embarrassed to mention it. But here I am.
Nietzsche’s statement on God captured a spirit dominating the modern perio...
Ornaments from first principles
Humans love ornamentation. They also hate it. In general, it appears that people with a strong aesthetic compass have intense opinions about it, one way or another.
For me, ornaments can give a feeling of the sacred
or they can induce pl...
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Theoretical physicist contemplating Beauty in a world of computation. MIT PhD making computational art and choral electronic music. Forgive me for the moments where I mistake Beauty for God.
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