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The Aesthetic Brain: How we evolved to desire beauty and enjoy art

aesthetics, psychology, symmetry, beauty1 min read

The Aesthetic Brain: How we evolved to desire beauty and enjoy art by Anjan Chatterjee

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What does it mean to have an "aesthetic experience" (aka रस - "rasa")? [what makes flowers "beautiful"?, why is the sight of mountains pleasing?,]. Understand it's (it = aesthetic experience) various tenets - music, smell, taste, sex, sight, etc from an evolutionary, neurological perspective.

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