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<p>'''Objective beauty''': | <p>'''Objective beauty''': Objective preferences are not acquired by experience, but inherited (''"hardwired"'') and shared by a species or race. | ||
This means there are ''fixed neuronal circuits'' in our brains which assign value to our percepts in proportion to beauty. They do this by literally comparing the percepts to ''hardwired patterns'' or by analyzing the ''mathematical or geometric beauty'' of the percepts, such as symmetry, smoothness, elegance, or more generally, ''simplicity'', which appears to be common to many higher animals.<ref>https://www.apa.org/monitor/oct06/pretty</ref></p> | This means there are ''fixed neuronal circuits'' in our brains which assign value to our percepts in proportion to beauty. They do this by literally comparing the percepts to ''hardwired patterns'' or by analyzing the ''mathematical or geometric beauty'' of the percepts, such as symmetry, smoothness, elegance, or more generally, ''simplicity'', which appears to be common to many higher animals.<ref>https://www.apa.org/monitor/oct06/pretty</ref></p> | ||
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