Hierarchalist
03-08-2014, 01:05 PM
Value judgments are built on comparisons.
Self with the other or self with an average otherness or an otherness with an other.
The relationship of observer, judging mind, with other and of self determines the value judgments outcome.
In terms of aesthetics the fluid exhibits divergences of rates of flow which the mind interprets as form, color, texture, mass...in this case the value judgment is with the self interpreting.
Time is the deciding factor, as time is a measurement of change and change is the awareness of a discrepancy between continuous mental models, or abstractions.
The more timeless an otherness seems, the more resistant to change, the more stable or the closest towards the absolute it comes, all the more valuable it is to us. This is man's or a mind's attraction to order in a reality characterized by increasing disorder, or fragmentation.
If entropy is increasing then looking back to the past is looking into a state of more order....God and the Big Bang are examples of this order, projected as absolute.
Symmetry, order, to a higher degree than the average or to the one we perceive in ourselves is called "beauty".
Intelligence is a form of symmetry of mind.
Aesthetics, despite what most moderns wish were true, is not an illusion. Perception and cognition evolves to facilitate survival. that it manages to do so means that its methods have proven to be adequate thus far.
Our perceptions did not evolve to test our faith, to trick us. They evolved to aid an organism willfully guide its aggregate energies towards goals or ideals or object/objectives.
I aesthetically perceive the chemical composition of an apple, and perceive if it is ripe or not just by how it looks. I may not have precise information, codes to name the chemicals, a high powered microscope to peer into its depths but I do not really require one. The particular apple's entire past is manifest in its presence and how my brain interprets its presence, via an intermediate medium: light interacting with it and then with my sense organ.
In recent times men are being trained to doubt their own eyes. This to enable a more efficient form of mind-control.
When the world has been made into an illusion and your senses cannot be trusted then you must rely on authority figures who tell you what is what and how to judge and how to value.
Manipulating inherit existential anxieties is also a part of it. When the mind is offered the comforting idea that the world is not as it appears, but better, then it grasps this hypothesis with little forethought because the world as it appears is threatening, unflattering, full of uncertainty producing anxiety.
Source. (http://forum.philosophynow.org/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=9266#p1125739)
Self with the other or self with an average otherness or an otherness with an other.
The relationship of observer, judging mind, with other and of self determines the value judgments outcome.
In terms of aesthetics the fluid exhibits divergences of rates of flow which the mind interprets as form, color, texture, mass...in this case the value judgment is with the self interpreting.
Time is the deciding factor, as time is a measurement of change and change is the awareness of a discrepancy between continuous mental models, or abstractions.
The more timeless an otherness seems, the more resistant to change, the more stable or the closest towards the absolute it comes, all the more valuable it is to us. This is man's or a mind's attraction to order in a reality characterized by increasing disorder, or fragmentation.
If entropy is increasing then looking back to the past is looking into a state of more order....God and the Big Bang are examples of this order, projected as absolute.
Symmetry, order, to a higher degree than the average or to the one we perceive in ourselves is called "beauty".
Intelligence is a form of symmetry of mind.
Aesthetics, despite what most moderns wish were true, is not an illusion. Perception and cognition evolves to facilitate survival. that it manages to do so means that its methods have proven to be adequate thus far.
Our perceptions did not evolve to test our faith, to trick us. They evolved to aid an organism willfully guide its aggregate energies towards goals or ideals or object/objectives.
I aesthetically perceive the chemical composition of an apple, and perceive if it is ripe or not just by how it looks. I may not have precise information, codes to name the chemicals, a high powered microscope to peer into its depths but I do not really require one. The particular apple's entire past is manifest in its presence and how my brain interprets its presence, via an intermediate medium: light interacting with it and then with my sense organ.
In recent times men are being trained to doubt their own eyes. This to enable a more efficient form of mind-control.
When the world has been made into an illusion and your senses cannot be trusted then you must rely on authority figures who tell you what is what and how to judge and how to value.
Manipulating inherit existential anxieties is also a part of it. When the mind is offered the comforting idea that the world is not as it appears, but better, then it grasps this hypothesis with little forethought because the world as it appears is threatening, unflattering, full of uncertainty producing anxiety.
Source. (http://forum.philosophynow.org/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=9266#p1125739)