Why Steven why? I been a bit obsessed with this for years. Do *we* share an aesthetic at some sort of atomic level? Any further reading rec?
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Me too! Also, nearly all animals thought ugly come from deep sea/caves or are blind, so they can't see each other. Wish I knew the answer!
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Because it's life & sex, and indeed the origin of human art. All human art is the mating game.
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speak for yourself, I wanna fornicate the Crab Nebula
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appreciating aesthetics and symmetry isn't the same as triggering sexual excitement and attraction. That's what the fish wants to achieve.
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Sexual selection can produce extremely ugly and asymmetric things as well. Fiddler crabs or Giraffe weevil are good examples.
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It is joyfulness rather than beauty we are experiencing; we connect to that which is complete as completeness creates an atmosphere of joy.
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Pinker is one demographic away from writing for
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We are symmetric because we like symmetry, and sexual selection did the rest. Why do we like it? Are there animals that don't?
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Why indeed. Another striking example by amazing Richard Feynman "Ode to a flower":https://vimeo.com/55874553
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And thus Jesus spoke: "If thus a fly of butter mightst grow such purtty wings over here, there's prolly enough chips&dip for all 13 of us."
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lol to all the dweebs here who think there's an evolutionary explanation for beauty, of all things.
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Best guess... it was adaptive to have a positive association with order & patterns, probably for a mix of sexual selection and... 1/
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... the impetus to improve our environment. To create this evolution co-opted existing machinery for identifying physical attractiveness. 2/
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When refined by someone who actually works in the field, this idea might generate testable predictions. E.g. perhaps neural locus of ... 3/
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artistic / patterned aesthetics (if there is one) is adjacent to identifiers of facial symmetry and moral reasoning. 4/
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OTOH there are so many analogues to order & chaos / aesthetics & disgust that the corresponding structures may be continuously distributed.
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None of these things are objectively beautiful. All of these things are subjective. Ornithophobiacs don't think peacocks are pretty.
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Not necessarily. Ornithophobiacs can still think they are pretty and be irrationally afraid of them.
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Also, they are the exceptions. The majority of people think that peacocks are beautiful.
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