Common sense leads us not to be surprised at that, since people who don't care what stuff costs will logically not mind too much if the cost of that stuff goes up.
But Pollock can also come to mind less logically in front of the wild staccato marks of "Riding a Donkey Through the Snow," an ink painting by Huang Shen, an 18th-century Chinese artist, or Jean-Honoré Fragonard's "Portrait of a Woman With a Dog," in which translucent slithers of maroon define her silk gown.
Even in cases like legal reasoning, where logicians and logically-minded legal theorists have put much effort into formalizing the reasoning, the utility of the results is controversial.
It's worth noting that logically-minded AI researchers can consistently retain their methodology and yet, to the extent that they view their products purely as engineering, can reject the traditional cognitive scientist's belief in the importance of computation over representations for understanding the mind.
And those are only the things we can logically conclude; never mind myriad unforeseen consequences.
The aim is to do things in a motor fashion as I know those who are having an heartache about forgetting their ex won't be able to use their minds logically!
Getting knowledge of them is not making an unknown thing known, but bringing something to mind that was always already known, by means of logically derivative 'trigger'-notions.
These are the people whose images should logically be inducing a mind-set of identification, not comparison.
When pondering the past or logically analyzing it, the mind contracts, the life forces stiffen.
Not only is chess a worthwhile activity for training the mind to think logically and to plan strategies useful in problem solving, but it can also be a device for discovering hidden talent.
