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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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Hardwired patterns come into play in ''sexually dimorphic beauty'', which often involves seemingly arbitrary, exaggerated and specific body features, such as large and firm female breasts<ref>https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ajhb.23287</ref> or | Hardwired patterns come into play in ''sexually dimorphic beauty'', which often involves seemingly arbitrary, exaggerated and specific body features, such as large and firm female breasts<ref>https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ajhb.23287</ref> or large penises, nose shapes (e.g. upturned nose in women), a robust mandible, protruding cheekbones, compact midface and hunter eyes in men ([[Millimeters of bone|few millimeters of bone]]), as well as dimples on back or cheeks, muscle tone, cleavage, thigh gap, abs crack, six pack (see also [[:Category:Aesthetics]]), and also complex coloration patterns and ornament in many sighted higher animals. | ||
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