Year: 2025
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: The aim of this study is to outline a theoretical framework for exploring possible interactions between the concepts of information, intelligence, and the experience of beauty, including efforts to communicate the latter. These notions are inherently polysemantic, which renders their interrelations highly complex. The problem is further complicated by the impossibility of comparing what might be described as the ‘experience of information’ with the traditionally understood experience of beauty. Still, the question remains whether a theoretical inquiry—conceived as an attempt to test the usefulness of selected notions of information in the context of conveying aesthetic experience—can yield valuable insights. Surprisingly, highly abstract definitions, when combined with a particular view of intelligence, prove especially illuminating, particularly given the near-ubiquity of AI-based systems. Moreover, this perspective makes it possible to approach beauty—and, more broadly, aesthetics—as a highly specific process of information transmission. Intelligence, understood in this context as a uniquely human and concrete capacity for actively interpreting, transforming, and generating information, together with selected abstract notions of information, plays a fundamental role in this process. A noteworthy outcome is that, in such applications, abstract and formally defined concepts often prove more effective than more intuitive approaches, such as semantic conceptions of information. The study concludes by stressing the importance of protecting, cultivating, and promoting those modes of being that remain distinctive to human existence.
Author: Łukasz Mścisławski
Institution: Wrocław University of Science and Technology
Language: English
Topic: Ethics, Aesthetics, and Art
Subfield: Philosophy
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: gold
OpenAlex ID: W4415658000