Q Are aesthetic qualities objective or subjective? A: No! Neither intrinsic nor mental nor woo, but interactions constrained by causality.
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Gibson’s “affordance” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affordance is a useful analog: a joint property of subject and object, inherently action-oriented.
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Affordances are opportunities for practical action; aesthetic qualities are analogous opportunities for sensory appreciation.
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Gibson’s work was dismissed as woo by computationalists when it came out, but it’s now generally accepted as purely naturalistic.
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(I played a small part in getting Gibson accepted by computationalists, by incorporating his ideas in an AI system.)
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Locating aesthetic qualities in either subject or object inevitably turns into woo, because neither is where they live.
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