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 opposites.

Salvator Rosa’s “The Death of Empedocles.” Wikimedia Commons. Public Domain.

© 2024 Andrew Hodgson. Edited and contributed to by Lisa Anthony and Margaret Krous. The idea that physical conditions in the brain are…