PinnedThermoaestheticsThermoaesthetics: Life in Terms of the NonlivingA concept of aesthetic complexity based on universal animal preferences for mixtures of more and less exciting physical and psychological…·289 min read·Feb 25, 2024--1--1
ThermoaestheticsRainbows in the Animal BrainStudies show increasing arousal levels in humans responding to the perception of increasing wavelengths of light, from blue to green to…·10 min read·Jun 28, 2022--8--8
ThermoaestheticsTime is BoringIdiomatic expressions indicate that we find time to be an unarousing concept, in need of association with exciting things to make it more…·5 min read·May 10, 2022--4--4
ThermoaestheticsConcepts of Form are Coupled with Exciting Qualities in LanguageConcepts related to form are mixed in aesthetic expressions with those related to excitement, indicating that form belongs to a mental…·8 min read·May 5, 2022--2--2
ThermoaestheticsBrain Temperature and Animal ColorationThe hue-heat effect, interpreted as a universal preference for darker colors in hotter environments and brighter colors in colder…·14 min read·Apr 17, 2022----
ThermoaestheticsRapid Eye Movements and Brain HeatRapid, random eye movements during sleep are probably related to increased temperature in eye-connected parts of the brain, or the speed…·3 min read·Mar 26, 2022--3--3
ThermoaestheticsDisruptions of Roundness in Language, Poetry and CultureHumans are strangely obsessed with the perceptual and conceptual disruption of round things, especially eyes. Evidence for this is…·10 min read·Feb 23, 2022--1--1
ThermoaestheticsThermoaesthetic ExpressionsThousands of popular, idiomatic expressions have been selected for aesthetically in languages due to the amusing, contradictory way in…·19 min read·Feb 22, 2022----
ThermoaestheticsConsciousness and Liquid CrystalsConsciousness is probably related to the liquid crystalline physical state of animal brains.·7 min read·Feb 19, 2022--1--1
ThermoaestheticsThe Softness EffectAnimals probably like the texture of soft things such as breasts and tongues because we have similarly soft brains.·4 min read·Feb 5, 2022----