.@KevinSimler returns to blogging with an ambitious, convincing theory of beauty. I buy almost all of it but I'm concerned with the difference between beautiful and attractive.
https://meltingasphalt.com/a-natural-history-of-beauty/ …
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In the abstract perhaps. But concretely I don't see why we as humans appreciate flowers, for example. They don't try to appeal to us.
yeah, that’s where i’d hoped my post would take me but i never managed to get there =/
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I feel ya. You have to stop somewhere.
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speaking on flowers and aesthetics, this is one of my favourite feynman quotespic.twitter.com/UJ2AT33h65
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Maybe the fact that insects evolved to be attracted to flowers but *not* to mate with them necessitated a new kind of appreciation separate from sexual desire, and we experience something similar as beauty.
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I mean it's gotta be a form of conserved perceptual bias, right? Somewhat "boring" answer but I can't see an alternative. Would make a fun SF premise though: scientists use cross-species standards of beauty to discover an objective universal aesthetics.
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