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Originally Posted by Michael Chui  You've shown that there is a connection between the color green and nausea. |
Yes, as strong a connection as there is between dimples and beauty
(I also spelt 'too' wrong. How the?!)
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Originally Posted by Michael Chui Though, you do have a point that we assume it's an inherent fact, when it is not. But haven't we agreed that beauty is in the eye of the beholder? That it's always a subjective opinion? (Fact to me; opinion to you.) |
Did we? I thought your opinion was that beauty just is, that it exists separate from the observer. I must have got lost along the way somewhere.
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Originally Posted by Michael Chui *muses* To me, that suggests that beauty isn't even definable. Because we would no longer be defining the emotional response, but rather the interpretation of that response, and... we can't. Just as we've never really been able to pin down any of the other emotions. That's a bit of a let down. |
Yup. Except that I still consider it possible to define the aspects of something which lead to a perception of beauty. I remember a study which determined that symmetrical faces are considered more beautiful than those which aren't symmetrical. But as with the tennis ball example, it's not that those aspects in themselves are beautiful, but our emotional response to their perception which makes it so.
Maybe we can't define beauty itself, but perhaps one could define what one considers beautiful.
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Originally Posted by Michael Chui But we don't. As you said, "I love you; you're beautiful." |
In the case of another person, perhaps. But we mix it up with objects, music, scenery. I rarely say that I love snow capped mountains. But I guess it's true.