Ordinary Banana

that’s interesting - I’ve never read a good explanation of the “satisfyingness” quale (a visual that’s inexplicably satisfying to see)

I found one by @EvanCMalone https://www.contempaesthetics.org/newvolume/pages/article.php?articleID=800 … - cf. Christopher Alexander’s “fit” @vgr

Why must you C.Alex everything Paradigm lock

it’s not “everything” it’s literally his independent aesthetic conclusion

Yeah yeah Fun fact: car companies have design people specifically focused on making sure doors close with a satisfying thunk I bet there’s product design literature on this. I suspect there’s a strong aural component. It’s a kind of anti-music, like anti-jokes.

why anti-music? a satisfying sound is more music than noise

There’s no tension-resolution thing going on. It’s just straight up resolution. Like anti jokes aren’t incoherent or unfunny, they just don’t set up and resolve a premise. But I’m not attached to the idea. Just seems to fall short of musicality.

I’d summarize it as something like “reading mind in the revelation of precise fit”