Fucking why tho? Do I really want to understand how quantitatively beautiful a sunrise is without the total sensory experience of it? Do I want to know the geometric curves of my lover's face without feeling why I find them beautiful?
Is your reaction to beauty conscious? Do you make your body feel that way? Are the curves of this face beautiful? What does that mean? Could you differentiate between a beautiful sunrise and an ugly one?
Individual subjective recognition of experience is qualia and qualia is a part of consciousness. Without consciousness, there is no subjective differentiation in regard to beauty, making it objectively calculated, meaning it conforms to a singular standard across all that evaluate it.
Yeah I'd argue that finding something beautiful is fundamentally a function of conciousness - if not, beauty would otherwise just be a set of qualities and quantities you could replicate, and it doesn't really seem to be a certain set of qualities and quantities. Even if we were to look at a painting guaranteed to be beautiful, can you really say that both our subjective experiences result from the painting's features itself without our own experiences influencing why we might find something beautiful? Even if I truly don't experience beauty by looking at the painting, does it somehow invalidate your experience of a beautiful painting?
Fucking why tho? Do I really want to understand how quantitatively beautiful a sunrise is without the total sensory experience of it? Do I want to know the geometric curves of my lover's face without feeling why I find them beautiful?
Is your reaction to beauty conscious? Do you make your body feel that way? Are the curves of this face beautiful? What does that mean? Could you differentiate between a beautiful sunrise and an ugly one?
Individual subjective recognition of experience is qualia and qualia is a part of consciousness. Without consciousness, there is no subjective differentiation in regard to beauty, making it objectively calculated, meaning it conforms to a singular standard across all that evaluate it.
Yeah I'd argue that finding something beautiful is fundamentally a function of conciousness - if not, beauty would otherwise just be a set of qualities and quantities you could replicate, and it doesn't really seem to be a certain set of qualities and quantities. Even if we were to look at a painting guaranteed to be beautiful, can you really say that both our subjective experiences result from the painting's features itself without our own experiences influencing why we might find something beautiful? Even if I truly don't experience beauty by looking at the painting, does it somehow invalidate your experience of a beautiful painting?