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<p>'''Objective beauty''': Objective preferences are not acquired by experience, but inherited (''"hardwired"'') and hence 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 evaluate 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''. The brain appears to prefer simplicity because it is ''easy to process'', a preference that appears to be common to many higher animals.<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Processing_fluency_theory_of_aesthetic_pleasure</ref><ref>https://www.apa.org/monitor/oct06/pretty</ref></p> | This means there are ''fixed neuronal circuits'' in our brains which evaluate 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''. The brain appears to prefer simplicity because it is ''easy to process'', a preference that appears to be common to many higher animals.<ref>https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1207/s15327957pspr0804_3</ref><ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Processing_fluency_theory_of_aesthetic_pleasure</ref><ref>https://www.apa.org/monitor/oct06/pretty</ref></p> | ||
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Hardwired patterns come into play in ''sexually dimorphic beauty'' or [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secondary_sex_characteristic secondary sex characteristic], which often involve seemingly arbitrary, exaggerated and specific 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. | Hardwired patterns come into play in ''sexually dimorphic beauty'' or [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secondary_sex_characteristic secondary sex characteristic], which often involve seemingly arbitrary, exaggerated and specific 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. | ||