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Subject: Re: Beauty?
I'm less sure about equating the "experience" I infer you're calling
"beauty"
with images and thoughts as well as feelings.
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Perhaps the term "images" is a bad one here as it leads to a confusion
between the experiencing subject with the experienced object. My point is
that the experience we call beauty may be composed of a variety of different
kinds of states, including: a rise in pulse, feelings of aliveness of the
skin, the drawing of a breath, desire, a sense of affinity or perhaps the
identification of elegance. It just seems limiting to confine the inquiry
to "feelings", which I understand to be an somatic awareness of a bodily
state.
Mike Mallory
