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.

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