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<p>'''Objective beauty''': Objective preferences are not acquired by experience, but inherited (''"hardwired"'') and shared within or even across species or races. | <p>'''Objective beauty''': Objective preferences are not acquired by experience, but inherited (''"hardwired"'') and hence shared within or even across species or races. | ||
This means there are ''fixed neuronal circuits'' in our brains which assign value to our percepts in proportion to beauty. They do this by 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 brains may prefer because it is ''particularly easy'' to process, and 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 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 brains may prefer because it is ''particularly easy'' to process, and which appears to be common to many higher animals.<ref>https://www.apa.org/monitor/oct06/pretty</ref></p> | ||
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