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How do you know it was actually beautiful rather than simply stimulating the part of your brain that registers beauty?
by aero142 6y ago
How do you know it was actually beautiful rather than simply stimulating the part of your brain that registers beauty?
- Lammy 6y agoWhy do you consider those to be different?
- aero142 6y agoI'm pretty sure others have better answers than I do on whether objects we appreciate and describe as beautiful have intrinsic quality or if the entirety of the beauty exists only in the observer. I believe that there is an interplay between observer and object but I don't think I could prove it to you. However, if there was a pill that made me believe that something I previously thought was terrible and ugly was the most beautiful thing I had seen, that would not convince me that objects had no inherent beauty, just that the my brain was easily manipulated.
- mybandisbetter 6y agoHa, right, perhaps I hallucinated separately the image and the emotion that it is beautiful. My guess (just a guess) is that the images were themselves generated by the parts of the brain that register beauty, and so were beautiful by definition. If that's not true, I suspect that if you sat a large sample of people to look at these images, most would agree they were beautiful.
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- colinmhayes 6y agoObjective aesthetics is a question that we are not likely to solve.