Dynamic Darkness and Bright Stasis in Animals

A universal sensory bias is responsible for animals usually being colored so that our most perceptually dynamic body parts are darker and our relatively static parts are brighter.

Thermoaesthetics

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“The Bird’s Concert” by Frans Snyders ~1630 — 1640. Image from WikiArt. Public domain.

“Thus every one would probably agree with Lipps and call a pure yellow happy, a deep…

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Thermoaesthetics

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