I've been preoccupied lately by two ideas that I believe are related:

Error
Quality

First, specifically, why is there error? Not, how does an error occur? Nor am
I interested in the teleological answere that error produces diversity, which
is a good thing (and which strikes me as a circular argument). Why is there
error? Why is there no perfect duplication or action?

Second, why is it that some people cannot discern or distinguish the limits of
lesser quality? Why do some people accept an artful production (music, dance,
painting, etc.) as suitable and highly accomplished when it isn't? I am not
picking a quarrel with gauche taste and making a case for more art education.
I am interested in the process or mechanism or explanation of why it is that
some people cannot distinguish between the mediocre and the high quality.



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Michael Brady

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