As a psychophysicist, I respect the clues given by internal experience. E.g.,consider personality trait (PT) theory: language used to describe PTs was used to develop modern PT categories. RE: aesthetics, we would not tend to use "beautifu" or "exquisite" or "sublime" or "awe-inspiring" for food...

I see the logic of this approach. Yet I suspect the "neural Venn diagrams" of "ordinary-sensory-pleasure" with "aethetic-beauty-pleasure", while overlapping almost certainly, are not isomorphic. Case in point: the divergence of language used to describe the two classes of experience.

I see the logic of this approach. Yet I suspect the "neural Venn diagrams" of "ordinary-sensory-pleasure" with "aethetic-beauty-pleasure", while overlapping almost certainly, are not isomorphic. Case in point: the divergence of language used to describe the two classes of experience.

Dear Marcus, could u send me a pdf of your recent article on valuation and aesthetic experience? I am very interested in this topic. I have been writing about the Surreal Art of Rene Magritte and lessons his paintings provide about perceptual processing. russhamer2@gmail.com

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