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<p>'''Objective beauty''': Objective preferences are not acquired by experience, but inherited. | <p>'''Objective beauty''': Objective preferences are not acquired by experience, but inherited. | ||
There are ''fixed neuronal circuits'' in the human brain which evaluate percepts in proportion to beauty. | There are ''fixed neuronal circuits'' in the human brain which evaluate percepts in proportion to beauty. | ||
This occurs by comparing percepts to | This occurs by comparing percepts to hardwired patterns | ||
or by analyzing the | or by analyzing the mathematical or geometric beauty of the percepts, such as symmetry, smoothness, elegance, or 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 (''processing fluency theory of aesthetic pleasure'').<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> | The brain appears to prefer simplicity because it is ''easy to process'', a preference that appears to be common to many higher animals (''processing fluency theory of aesthetic pleasure'').<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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