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Thermoaesthetics: Life in Terms of the Nonliving

A concept of aesthetic complexity based on universal animal preferences for mixtures of more and less exciting physical and psychological…

Feb 25

Thermoaesthetics: Life in Terms of the Nonliving

Feb 25

Perceptual Excitement and Eysenck’s Mechanism of Personality

Eysenck’s theory of introvert versus extrovert behavior and arousal can be used to determine the relative excitingness of various primitive…

Jul 24

Perceptual Excitement and Eysenck’s Mechanism of Personality

Jul 24

Monoaesthetic Mixtures in Language, Culture and Biology

Various idiomatic expressions, cultural creations and biological traits have been selected for due to the amusing, contradictory way in…

May 13

Monoaesthetic Mixtures in Language, Culture and Biology

May 13

Rainbows in the Animal Brain

Studies show increasing arousal levels in humans responding to the perception of increasing wavelengths of light, from blue to green to…

Jun 28, 2022

Rainbows in the Animal Brain

Jun 28, 2022

Time is Boring

Idiomatic expressions indicate that we find time to be an un-arousing concept, in need of association with exciting things to make it more…

May 10, 2022

Time is Boring

May 10, 2022

Concepts of Form are Coupled with Exciting Qualities in Language

Concepts related to form are mixed in aesthetic expressions with those related to excitement, indicating that form belongs to a mental…

May 5, 2022

Concepts of Form are Coupled with Exciting Qualities in Language

May 5, 2022

Brain Temperature and Animal Coloration

The hue-heat effect, interpreted as a universal preference for darker colors in hotter environments and brighter colors in colder…

Apr 17, 2022

Brain Temperature and Animal Coloration

Apr 17, 2022

Rapid Eye Movements and Brain Heat

Rapid, random eye movements during sleep are probably related to increased temperature in eye-connected parts of the brain, or the speed…

Mar 26, 2022

This is a picture of the painting “Eye Balloon” by Odilon Redon. It’s an eye inside of a hot air balloon, looking upward, with sharp, dark spikes around the top of the eye/baloon.

Mar 26, 2022

Disruptions of Roundness in Language, Poetry and Culture

Humans are strangely obsessed with the perceptual and conceptual disruption of round things, especially eyes. Evidence for this is…

Feb 23, 2022

Wassily Kandinsky’s “Several Circles.” In this painting there are about 40 circles of different sizes and colors, some of them overlapping and some not. The background is black. Photo from WikiArt. Public domain.

Feb 23, 2022

Consciousness and Liquid Crystals

Consciousness is probably related to the liquid crystalline physical state of animal brains.

Feb 19, 2022

This is an abstract painting by Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz’s called “Nova Aurigae.” It looks like a fluid mixture of colors with many swirls or spirals and there’s something that looks vaguely like a face emerging from the chaos.

Feb 19, 2022

Thermoaesthetics

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A concept of aesthetic complexity based on universal animal preferences for mixtures of simple, more and less exciting physical and psychological opposites.

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