Ten years before that book was released, Albert Einstein and Rabindranath Tagore had a fascinating discussion on the subjectivity of truth and beauty, or wether there could be any truth or beauty if there were not humans to judge them.
Contrary to what I’d have expected, Tagore reveals an impersonal and scientific conception of truth and beauty as qualities that emerge from observation and analysis, as Einstein expresses one that is closer to religious belief, where truth and beauty are absolute qualities even in the absence of humans that can attribute them to anything.
https://www.themarginalian.org/2012/04/27/when-einstein-met-tagore/
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