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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…

289 min readFeb 25, 2024

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Thermoaesthetics: Life in Terms of the Nonliving

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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…

10 min readJun 28, 2022

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Rainbows in the Animal Brain

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Time is Boring

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

5 min readMay 10, 2022

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Time is Boring

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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…

8 min readMay 5, 2022

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Concepts of Form are Coupled with Exciting Qualities in Language

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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…

14 min readApr 17, 2022

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Brain Temperature and Animal Coloration

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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…

3 min readMar 26, 2022

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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.

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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…

10 min readFeb 23, 2022

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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.

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Thermoaesthetic Expressions

Thousands of popular, idiomatic expressions have been selected for aesthetically in languages due to the amusing, contradictory way in…

19 min readFeb 22, 2022

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Thermoaesthetic Expressions

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Consciousness and Liquid Crystals

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

7 min readFeb 19, 2022

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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.

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The Softness Effect

Animals probably like the texture of soft things such as breasts and tongues because we have similarly soft brains.

4 min readFeb 5, 2022

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This is a photo of a painting by J.M.W. Turner from the 1800’s called “The Devil’s Bridge, St. Gothard.” It’s a blurry landscape mostly made up of rocky mountains with a stream running through it and a rainbow over the stream.

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Thermoaesthetics

Thermoaesthetics

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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