More and Less Exciting Things

Some things are universally more exciting to animals than their opposites. Light is more exciting than darkness, red coloration is more exciting than blue, everything is more exciting than nothing, and movement, speed, long flowing forms, spikiness, upwardness and outwardness are exciting relative to stillness, solid and round objects, smoothness, downwardness, inwardness and holes.

Thermoaesthetics
17 min readApr 8, 2021

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Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz’s “Composition.” Photo from WikiArt. Public domain.

What, was he sad, or merry?

Like to the time o’ the year between the extremes

Of hot and cold, he was nor sad nor merry.

Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra

Topics

Brains
Preexistence
Mixtures
Brain Heat
Brains Versus Computers
Universality
Liquid Crystallinity
Other More and Less Exciting Things
Combinations Versus Mixtures
Animals
Bodies
Imperceivable Mixtures
Works Cited

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Thermoaesthetics
Thermoaesthetics

Written by Thermoaesthetics

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