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127: John Manoochehri - Towards the Spatial Web

Narratives w/Will Jarvis

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What Is Beauty?

The argument that I think is actually most useful here is the argument from cognition. If you decompose beauty, it has a couple of characteristics, which immediately, when you expose them, makes you realize what a subtle and slightly stingy concept is. And so we aren't getting this highly contorted psychic brainings of what is beautiful because things that historically may have been attractive and unattainable are now attractive and attainable. We end up eroding an aesthetic characteristic of what is desirable simply to get things that are unattainable,.

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