----- Original Message -----
From: "William Conger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, May 09, 2008 2:09 PM
Subject: Re: Beauty?)
So how is it that there is something inside (beauty)
that was never outside (beauty)? Aristotle: There is
nothing in the mind (memory) that was not first in
the senses (phantasia).
WC
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Even in the case of a much stronger causal relationship, the state
experienced can originate in the human mind/body. If you strike your thumb
with a hammer, you feel pain. But, it doesn't make much sense to say the
pain was a property of the hammer.
I believe we learn to appreciate beauty. The experience of beauty is
probably conditioned upon some amount of enculturation and with some
biological disposition toward the valuing of that type of experience.
Although, I haven't a clue as to how the experience of beauty might lead to
survival.
Mike Mallory
