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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…

Jun 8

Thermoaesthetics: Life in Terms of the Nonliving

Jun 8

Fluidity and Solidness in Poetry

The abundance of juxtapositions of fluidity with solidness in poetry requires and explanation involving a universal feature of human…

Sep 1

Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s “The ‘Little’ Tower of Babel,” 1563. WikiArt. Public Domain.

Sep 1

Creation Stories and States of Matter

Stories of creation reflect the complex liquid crystalline physical state of life.

Aug 24

Kobayashi Eitaku’s “Izanagi and Izanami,” c. 1885. Wikipedia. Public Domain.

Aug 24

The Magical-Looking Water of Tsalal Island

How Edgar Allan Poe accidentally predicted the discovery of liquid crystals.

Aug 16

John William Waterhouse’s “Circe Invidiosa,” 1892. WikiArt. Public Domain.

Aug 16

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, 2024

Perceptual Excitement and Eysenck’s Mechanism of Personality

Jul 24, 2024

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, 2024

Monoaesthetic Mixtures in Language, Culture and Biology

May 13, 2024

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

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Essays on aesthetic complexity and universal animal preferences for mixtures of more and less exciting physical and psychological opposites.

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