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I think that music is not just the sound and not just the observable elements. It literally moves your emotional system around. We get shivers, we get horny, our mind shuts down and we get swept away in memories. That's not because of any specific arrangement of machine-observeable sound objects.

> on what our model believes the world looks like

Its not even doing that. Those images are just simple 2D fields of pixels with color data.

It has no idea about any worlds. The spatial cues are way off, but we understand art (impressionism through messy expressionism, glitch) so we forgive it. And because they chose images with puppy eyes and we like puppies. Take away the animal elements and everybody would say the images were boring crap.




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