Is beauty an end? In a sense, yes. Pure beauty offers no new information; it resonates with what we already know, this is why we find it beautiful. Beauty refines our neuroverse-based abstract model, sharpening our understanding, in an infinite quest for micro-optimising the model, but eventually leading to stasis. Beauty is sterile. Like Zen’s idea of stagnation, beauty halts growth, and the pursuit of it may be a search for a dead-end. Yet, beauty can still be optimised, with each iteration bringing us closer but never fully reaching a theoretical perfection, like an arrow slowing half speed every half distance, it never hits its target. Beauty, then, may represent the endpoint of learning.
