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Edgar Allan Poe and Beethoven were not only artists, but both men expressed an extremely matured sense of creative identity that transcended the bounds of all deductive-inductive forms of logic, and embraced a rigorous use of metaphore and irony that no computer could ever approximate. In this RTF Lecture, Matt Ehret showcases the roots of automation, and the cult of artificial intelligence with a 2300 year sweep of history and follows the trail of Ludwig van Beethoven and Edgar Allan Poe's clashes with a magician/priest of a proto-AI cult named Johannes Maelzel.
Supplementary links to this lecture:
Maelzel's Chess Player by Poe: eapoe.org/WorkS/harrison/jah14e03.htm
Poe: Lost Soul of America by Allan Salisbury:
archive.schillerinstitute.com/fidelio_archive/2006/fidv15n01-02-2006SpSu/fidv15n01-02-2006SpSu_059-edgar_allan_poe_the_lost_soul_of.pdf
Claudio Arrau - Beethoven - Piano Sonata No 30 in E major, Op 109
youtube.com/watch?v=IIbv1DEqDc4
Beethoven's Symphony No. 8, 2nd movement,
youtube.com/watch?v=IMsgM4fevpM&t=105s
Canon for Maelzel, for voices and metronome - Ludwig van Beethoven
youtu.be/2Vfv_W5-76Q?si=OaNj031N48FDK0b1
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Edgar Allan Poe and Beethoven were not only artists, but both men expressed an extremely matured sense of creative identity that transcended the bounds of all deductive-inductive forms of logic, and embraced a rigorous use of metaphore and irony that no computer could ever approximate. In this RTF Lecture, Matt Ehret showcases the roots of automation, and the cult of artificial intelligence with a 2300 year sweep of history and follows the trail of Ludwig van Beethoven and Edgar Allan Poe's clashes with a magician/priest of a proto-AI cult named Johannes Maelzel.
Supplementary links to this lecture:
Maelzel's Chess Player by Poe: eapoe.org/WorkS/harrison/jah14e03.htm
Poe: Lost Soul of America by Allan Salisbury:
archive.schillerinstitute.com/fidelio_archive/2006/fidv15n01-02-2006SpSu/fidv15n01-02-2006SpSu_059-edgar_allan_poe_the_lost_soul_of.pdf
Claudio Arrau - Beethoven - Piano Sonata No 30 in E major, Op 109
youtube.com/watch?v=IIbv1DEqDc4
Beethoven's Symphony No. 8, 2nd movement,
youtube.com/watch?v=IMsgM4fevpM&t=105s
Canon for Maelzel, for voices and metronome - Ludwig van Beethoven
youtu.be/2Vfv_W5-76Q?si=OaNj031N48FDK0b1
Support our work in the following ways:
1) Make a donation
risingtidefoundation.net/support-the-work
2) Subscribe to Matt and Cynthia's Substack
matthewehret.substack.com
cynthiachung.substack.com
3) Buy some books!
canadianpatriot.org/untold-history-of-canada-books
4) Buy some merchandise!
and follow us on risingtidefoundation.net and t.me/risingtidefoundation
