after reading a little about quantum mechanics I'm not so sure any more.
>Even the arts can be seen as a process of discovery, specifically, the discovery of what processes and artifacts produce favorable reactions in human brains.
That assumes that the artists test their work against real audience and adjust their style accordingly. Maybe they do, but I'm sure that there are artists out there who just create art.
>after reading a little about quantum mechanics I'm not so sure any more.
Even Brownian motion would suffice, a chemical phenomena we've known about for millennia.[0] The jittering of sodium and potassium ions between neurons can be enough to trigger spike firing in a 'random' way[1]. At the end of the day, we are just complicated salty sacks of stochastic processes trying to reproduce, not much more.
[0] yes, it's 'quantum mechanical' in cause, like all things are. I'd say it's more statistical mechanics than quantum though, but to each their own: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brownian_motion
after reading a little about quantum mechanics I'm not so sure any more.
>Even the arts can be seen as a process of discovery, specifically, the discovery of what processes and artifacts produce favorable reactions in human brains.
That assumes that the artists test their work against real audience and adjust their style accordingly. Maybe they do, but I'm sure that there are artists out there who just create art.