AI-powered
podcast player
Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features
Animals Don't Do Art and They Don'T Appreciate Beauty
A final big bang is going to be required to explain how a mechanistic animal brain can become a self-reflective human mind. One need look no further than mating preferences and rituals to dismiss the notion that animals don't appreciate beauty or at least have aesthetic preferences. Many species of particularly human artistic endeavors, including pigs, primates, elephants, dolphins, rabbits, and donkeys.