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Another alternative is that taste is something you can only learn through experience and mentorship, where memorizing simple rules and heuristics is not suffici

• shw1n 2y ago
  Perhaps this is where I disagree -- I believe while difficult, all tacit knowledge can be made explicit, but is just hard to do so This may be because I'm not good at picking up on social cues, so had to learn things more consciously But ofc I could also be wrong and maybe there are things the subconscious can learn that the conscious cannot
  • etrautmann 2y ago
    There’s another argument though that some taste is genetically programmed, like our affinity for campfires or sweeping views. Those don’t seem to be learned as they seem to be entirely cross cultural and innate. Those aren’t examples of art of course but make the point that some sense of aesthetics may not be learned.