Sunday, June 26, 2016

Why Does This Equal Seven^Tea^Five Cents??



                                                                                 ??   Polaroid Instant Camera
                                                                  Pole.Lure
                                                              +  Pull.Lure
                                                                             = whats Phish.Sheen??
Eyes of A
  Minds Composure
  in Motion to
  spelling a method pictures
  slowest gaze to Stair
                                                   in a wink
                Kind that Sought        or
                                                     wince.scene
Asterisk to Self; 

*reference to self for Title simplicity on further thought towards a dollar Bill.

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Ship Too Shore A.Loom.In.Numb!!



Owe how reach must strand each wheat to say that oat is but a said to breed that as per air,
the raw in dignity to sod on speak these languages of depth find such counter,
all that raise to rock and form,
that is reality on the solar stream of method.

Humanity has trough,
on the slug a banana peel gave halt.tour,
trees find root,
Mankind sank.

Marsh spoke a simple bog,
that brought lumber,
each timber grew raise in vocation wheel.

Steer rang,
engine of this earth,
planets hung to space in shell,
the haul lo,
a quiet taste of bit.tours priced to Toll.

The bridge jizz,
oh pane is when.dough for this sad bare.role of listed limp,
lanes charted rounds in the Sir.coal of just silents,
well dial brought nothing,
it was the lands let.tour.

I rung a note to bell lift,
the shores of sands began to shift the gears in explanation,
a clam in short tale chose to muscle a kindness in gentle ride,
across,
no it was an old friend on a journey of forgotten mail,
that thrift of before my know would have grasped a fire in I the Flame!!

Heavy memory on shoulders??,
no,
it was the flicker of breadth,
breathing with cadence of wonder no Man could desire to warm this story,
for on that this World fried butter to gather togs,
cobbler of the field.

Pasture Fenced,
lakes rose and explain gave dice.see grip,
I listened to that gave,
in form of exclaim I bravo Nature to comfort,
oh much bested this interest.sting lung.

Suns on that what a door,
ays to introduce a Moons brier of thorns and measure as the rule of no hand came to green,
an orphan was I,
a time forgotten in Time & Ages fell with fracture to 2016 the fringe of dead Men shocking flaccid,
left learn.moil asked quest to chin that speaker seep,
I turned to no mow.bull for the an.eh.mall fleeced crowds and that gift told me stile.

I weighted,
no Watch was needed,
the Tide wade gift,
tease.sing hare rats as the Nest,
these were the witness.is of pain on rust that ache for Greece.

dg

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Aye, Hear Better Than Most: But (Long-Pause) I Write Much More Than A Ghost!!!



Port.Toll of Berth sleeves I counter these traces,
at the Times,
inch a feat by multiplication at the price of arithmetic on ewe.rith.Micks,
an Irish Soap of eh.soaps.fae.Bull,
the Horn of a glass once a pawn a table,
cruising nothing important to the use of a sails rig,
owe.pea at the salts lap of know be.each.

Trade language while knowing that Wall.wrist on the Sees of spake,
taking note??,
do not bother the price of the bridge to the tell of spelling,
be not confused with I for the total of meow.nip.pew.lei.shin,
I gather nigh from collective shade,
the cast of speak is as easy to understand as the choice.

Perfectly shifted to gear an than the Independent ran the Storm of a Strongs,
like.in to the Vampire at the blood of as Tong,
salad at see.sluff,
wrapping to gift this as the fee,
what oath is a fiddler on the sealing of cadence to the original fly??,
across the great divide.

Oh pen to that is the crowd.did gossip to toss,
a method of letter just on the lace,
tide beach to ore,
earth on known of my life for the store.

I fashion this to the ankles of IM.Pier.Ear.Err??,
no just an case to library of use on the or.a.face,
drink with Carp the fishing line.

Bait to Plank,
walk slowly as this begins sync,
the gentle spelling to say I hear more than sign,
its the Packs on that straight and done.

First its the shale to grasp this reach,
second the silence to cliff the sheet,
third is the wool that Wines a Ven.Yard to watch the agony of this Country at slate,
chalk this blackboard and drips of in tangible from a special maze,
one that is to actual Three in Ton weight,
a Feather??

Y bother,
that is to paste such chest.tour Field that corn is the bun.Yens of wic.a.Ped.deed.E!.yah,
bringing spun to the spin at a pace harnessed with only a shown to evident nape,
therefore Kodak,
a string system.MAT.tick at the pulse of what its all about,
envelope Frogs Theory.

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Why Mind?? Stalk Photos!!!



Hear the shy off a sleeve of most Ancient in the training of NOW!!,
the balance of Times that chart of schedule to park the stun once shoulders,
carriage of wise in the gently sprite!!

Shake this swerve with a balls range on that Desert of screaming language,
what is the Belt,
on Orion the Solar distance to range a quick??,
the lift of harness on electric speed,
to arrive in & width these words while the Tongue is reliant.

Each Historic Razors Harbor touch the pier is Just,
I put other plates that I know a dark hours welp.

With riddle to communicate for the guise is Natural to vocal Ices method,
a system brought not to envelope a Worlds clear,
this clarity ships,
were a bisque accepted than the big bang would Felt.

An Antlers Approach,
introduction a smelt??,
nigh is the fishing of religious ploy,
that would be ankle slain.

Remainder of these chase only an X to Y yet elbow a Fee with choice g_ds in dance.Sir,
praise to namely a branch to remain??,
History Repeats whom on Palm??,
the wrinkle or the Fawn.

I was told in that belief of long lathe the following,
when people look alike stop,
and yet Plataea's will Sing,
lyrics will gather collection on a reef in a Clam,
the gaze of Ocean scene is the Bay and Lagoon is its Key.

Thorough the Ancients became to Steep??,
the stream mile,
instant that polaroid make no measure for the dolphins smile,
radar is whale.lean with found.day.shins present,
for it is not not that notice,
its the Damn.

Curl no Tree,
the Ring is as Indicative as the Storm to that Cyclone in a Twisters Reed,
whistle a tune.

List Mile,
mark only the halter with a saddles prevailing slough,
the face.seen will brows to raft on the float.duh in a Flanking of War on land & Yet see,
an Earth on an Equator will explanation in gentle finds for the Spear.Its lined,
masque,care.Ra the Sun,
a bright and Fallow.

Shed at a Shadow,
it will be the Comets Tale in an Albatross,
egg shall soup that is the beach of the Vat.

Boils rise to Educate your internal sheep Shifting a sleep,
eyes in wink,
a blink to Rank,
the File is Wit.Nest from Be From,
itself?? each?? Main?? Frame.Mean??,
words lest a cent,
a dollar meant to expel in No.Or's syn.Seer.leads grant seek & You shall Fined,
that link.kin heaves.

A Country on the Brinks is you.Men telling of blindness disease,
in Cause,
blinkers!!

Stairs in Speak will kill but nigh the Minute of a Pier.a.Mids teach,
the ground to base yet on the height wonder grapes the yard,
in each try.angle the massive block to build a graph of knights skill,
ignorance will come to bee the hive on the price of a yen,
pound measure is ointment,
but in the common it is ground,
did that Sphinx bring to knows Ore as the Wind would steel Note to answer Thor.

Mankind will fashion a Dress,
once for the Fae.Bowl and Twice for the Hem,
in gem diamonds will string pearls,
its the Neck.less that identifies The Captive,
it is the capture that a Spring is in addition The mud Whole Inn Plural,
to separate owe.ill is the Vinegar that shakes & Bakes touching Space,
remember the moil.

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4:11 PM to date and state Published Now. Original and free write done by I on June 9th, 2016.

The following comes from Wikipedia in an as an attachment to the above free verse write and was copied and posted at the time of compliment to accent the above free verse written here on my google blog 'The Secret of the Universe is Choice; Know Decision.  I, Karen Anastasia Placek held in draft until 'Published June 26th, 2016'. At and for my reference to the filed posts held 'in draft'as within 'the hold' of google.  Time stamp on my acer laptop computer running Windows to say the time is 

4:11 PM to date and state Published Now 6/26/2016.




Caisteal Maol

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Caisteal Maol ruin
Caisteal Maol (GaelicCaisteal, 'Castle', Maol, 'bare') is a ruined castle located near the harbour of the village of KyleakinIsle of SkyeScotland. It is also known as Castle MoilCastle MaolDun AkynDunakin Castle[1] Dun Haakon and Castle Dunakin.[2]

Recreation of the 16th century exterior

History[edit]

The castle, an ancient seat of the Mackinnon clan, was a fortress commanding the strait of Kyle Akin between Skye and the mainland, through which all ships had to pass or else attempt the stormy passage of The Minch. The present building dates back to the 15th century, but is traditionally reputed to be of much earlier origin.
According to that tradition, Alpín mac Echdach's great-grandson Findanus, the 4th MacKinnon chief, brought Dunakin into the clan around the year 900 by marrying a Norse princess nicknamed 'Saucy Mary'. Findanus and his bride ran a heavy chain across the sound and levied a toll on all shipping vessels.[3] The Princess lies buried on Beinn na Caillich on Skye, her face reputedly turned towards Norway.
Whatever the veracity of the castle's traditional history, there is good reason for supposing the existence of a connection of some kind with Norway. King Haakon IV is thought to have assembled his fleet of longships there before the Battle of Largs in 1263 (hence the nameKyleakin - Haakon's kyle). Haakon's defeat at Largs effectively ended Norse domination of the Scottish islands.[4] Medieval and early modern documents also refer to the castle itself as Dunakin (Dun-Haakon), which is again strongly suggestive of a Norse connection.

Interior view of the large window on the first level - the thickness of the walls is apparent
The present structure is of late 15th or early 16th century construction. This is supported by historical documents and carbon dating. In 1513, a meeting of chiefs was held here and they agreed to support Donald MacDonald as Lord of the Isles. The last occupant of the castle was Neill MacKinnon, nephew of the 26th chief of the clan (c. 1601).[5]

Description[edit]

The castle occupies a headland above the village of Kyleakin facing the village of Kyle of Lochalsh across the strait. It is a simple rectangular keep of three stories. The unexplored basement level is filled with rubble and other debris and is believed to have contained the kitchen. The visitor today enters on the main level where the public dining space would have been. Stairs would have led up to the private apartments above.[5]
The castle is nearly completely ruined. In 1949 and 1989 parts of the ruins broke away in storms. The remaining ruins have been secured to prevent further deterioration.[6] No excavation of the ruins has been carried out, or is planned.

With Great Desire Ask Your Steep, "What Is The Back.Stretch." (I know you're there Google WarRoom:) Please Forward to The Warriors for Coach Kerr. Thanks)



Tide the Scope of a Swallow,
thus a Whistle a Pawn the Winds dial,
to number a context asking a bore Dom.^In.^Knows that Equator shells,
these Beach.

Shores variable,
the speech telling that save of glass to discuss The Plaster as a Whales Wall.up,
each smashing case.

What a Library,
did that Muscle Steep to Angle of Elbow room as An Elephants tool??,
does the swish of A Tale grasp the Core of brain matter to conversation of a Shadows speak??,
every detail on the Mi.Crow dot??,
but Aye.

Or is this eh Time on the Been.jizz Tire.Herd??,
a bit of accent for the A.Thor.It.Tee to raise that Stool of Language??,
special to the tongue,
a thigh of reach will bump you a need,
to knee that found with a good taste of how that Oh.Shin did Lung!!

Shout to the Liberty of what is a Grand Mountain on that shall.lo Valley of an Echelon,
be of fabulous to Creek as the river is might.tea,
in sheds to lumbering Timber knot,
in thus the boat will ship News to that speedometer of Mind!!

In.gauge of Radar to the Solar Scene,
list to thy sieve owe shales' tune,
bones at a Meteor??,
the Comet or The scrub Miser??,
what is this rock but a roll??,
Well??.

Deep within the Human Hide is a Vast and Spectacular cue,
to stretch width would embarrass your design,
the blueprint would read.Den and the lair of life counter only soy to drink in a seep,
yet what is the soil to a song??

Lyrics and Longs??,
good introduction to a V the goose on a Swans lawn??,
is the duck to cast the Frog of a toad??,
does that gathering cloud march with scene in story told??.

Reflect.Shins,
merely the . . . . . . . . . .,
do not lock up the ring of a sonar to taste only the salts sweat,
the waves of eternity say to waltz.

Dimes & Creams!!,
Wares Of Moils,
cast not your freeze,
regard the mold to an And soar the Fly to understand not the zip.Per but the Land,
sweep a.side the dust as the shelves cart while the Case is Desk stop??,
than wise is the Chair to Wheels or Castors??.

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From Dressage To Stadium What Is The Length Of Your Stirrup On Cross-Country For??



'Y' would the Bald E!.Gull to call Time asking the Hare for the Raise.Or's edge,
did that Key to that Sec.^Hint to a Tale of the lug on Tum.Mi's Nail,
biting that is the board off a sleeve to draw that Tell,
sketch to a straw and in told to brain its a scorch on the actual Pail.

Therefore by the Dues is that ankle Steep to Cheese on a Valley's Mail,
is the letter on the seed or is that Hoot on the Owl of that diggers Miled,
can that cinch Venue with the brought to E! Trot a thermal bale??,
every Stung held is the Deal of Cornea on that blink Keen stay.Ole,
as for the speak what say to Choice on that perk of a cough.Sir speech??

An Opera,
sing with a stick to key bail,
then as the apron strings to shake the Seek get a took,
by that Morrow it while be french Kiss.sin,
how lawn of the Pi to meet Tea your's bile,
venture with scale.

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11:21 AM to date and state Published Now. Original and free write done by I on June 11th, 2016.

'Y' At Per^Rent.The^Sees Does The Sign Describe 'The Come' As 'A' An Not 'Be' Sea On The Alphabet Off Sleeve Of Jacket, As Jacket, Yet Yields A Deed???



Philosophic sound,
that is the bay.Con to a Method of Mankind once Humanity for the grains Tum,
in ton to rule of Mind in Scene,
that is only a key to what??.

The wire cage in at cinch,
no that is a series of saddle, thorn, higher for 'til at the chord of string,
hence a combine of what is a driver on bit piece to bale.

Say that a preen gauged only the sluff,
the shaft of feather to ink Well,
depth of quick to draw of tip that rust of bled to blood of sawn.

Jetti with flight,
soar to a lathe,
shingle the beak.kin and egg is fawn,
letters at nest,
dial the sky,
rein in balance but what of the bee??,
above that is stick to branch of a sort.

Files on wrappers to thought on the line,
gauge touches Sir.Coal with Embers??

That clock on a Fire with float just Air??

Cross the enter.section of stripes to balance what??,
The Whip?? or the Whip.per.Well??

Men.Its on a waltz while the band does message,
does not that bowl.lah mark the flight of done,
from to sit a skeet,
than dust is begun before the shelf of grub.

Jest.tour at the Rate of mirrorly pen to Pt.,
seawater Taft with a choice to Pole.lee luft,
ceiling trial brave the loc. at Nestle chalk Lets chip,
yet free.Way to Hi.way why divide the Trip??

Get Even??,
each equal.lean to Squab??,
bottles with soak.kin bogs and Marshes full to Brim??,
browse that sigh.coal??,
from this to sat to sit the from as to Meteor of Occam's theory on Thesis fade.

Brake the pads on Wheel.lean to shed the Car of sigh.Ole,
does not that represent the rain in inch of lane??,
is nigh the sight of less.syn Inn??,
than 'Y' the E!.Quills Stone??

PHIL 4403: Philosophy of Art
Prof. Funkhouser
2/7/05
Weitz, “The Role of Theory in Aesthetics”
http://comp.uark.edu/~efunkho/09ArtNotes.pdf

*The chief concern of aesthetic theory has been to come up with necessary and sufficient
conditions for something to count as a work of art—this is an inquiry into the nature,
essence, or Form of art.

     --Weitz contends that this is not a productive line of inquiry, as there are no such
     necessary and sufficient conditions to be found.

*Weitz then turns to considering various, failed definitions of ‘art’: e.g., Formalism (art
as significant form), Emotionalism (art as the expression of emotion through a public,
sensuous medium), Intuitionism (art as “an awareness, non-conceptual in character, of the
unique individuality of things”), Organicism (art as a complex of interrelated parts), and
Voluntarism (art as the unique combination of imagination, language, and harmony).

*Following Wittegenstein, Weitz says that, instead of looking for the Form of art (or at
least before doing so), we should examine how the word or concept ‘art’ is used in our
language.

     --Wittgenstein’s example: What is a game?
     There are no necessary and sufficient conditions—only family resemblances.
     “Knowing what a game is is not knowing some real definition or theory but being
     able to recognize and explain games and to decide which among imaginary and
     new examples would or would not be called “games”.” (15)

     --There are paradigm cases of both games and works of art.

Open concept: “A concept is open if its conditions of application are emendable and
corrigible; i.e., if a situation or case can be imagined or secured which would call for
some sort of decision on our part to extend the use of the concept to cover this, or to close
the concept and invent a new one to deal with the new case and its new property.” (15)

     --Because no necessary and sufficient conditions exist for being a work of art, art
     is an open concept.

     --Weitz claims that only logical and mathematical concepts are closed. (15)
     Q: Is Weitz correct in this claim?

     --We do not discover the appropriate applications for open concepts, we decide on
     them.

1.
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*Weitz claims that the novelty and adventurousness of art makes it incapable of
definition. (16)

     Q: But, given that Weitz thinks most concepts are open, are these properties of
     art even relevant to its openness? Would the existence of necessary and sufficient
     conditions for art limit the creativity and adventurousness of the art world?

*Instead of searching for a definition, we should investigate how the concept of art is
actually used and in what circumstances it is correctly employed.

     --It is both descriptive and evaluative.

     --Weitz’s “criteria of recognition”, for the descriptive use of ‘art’: “some sort of
     artifact, made by human skill, ingenuity, and imagination, which embodies in its
     sensuous, public medium—stone, wood, sounds, words, etc.—certain
     distinguishable elements and relations.” (16)

     --No individual criterion provides a necessary condition, but each work of art
     necessarily meets one (some) of these criteria.

     --Weitz’s “criteria of evaluation”, for the evaluative use of ‘art’: Is all art, by
     definition, successful art?

     *Weitz concludes by suggesting that we view the traditional definitions of ‘art’ as
     offering points of emphasis—recommendations as to where artists should return their
     focus.














2.
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What Is An Ease^Sole Should The Feat Know A Footprint???


Aesthetics ~Note to Self: This post was originally copied and posted on my google blog 'The Secret of the Universe is Choice; Know Decision by I, Karen Anastasia Placek and held in draft until 'Published June 26th, 2016'. At and for my reference to the many more posts in 'the hold' google time stamp on my acer laptop computer running Windows to say the time is 

10:58 AM to date and state Published Now 6/26/2016.  However this is an important notation to said cent Tents!! This post was drafted to bit piece by ways of a harness to the bridle of information found on Wikipedia in regards to the study of said subject being important to a thought that I was in need of reference to as a rein.  With interest to the word in and of itself  'aesthetics' I became curious to its usage in my continued study of the philosophy of art complimenting the luxury of write.  Note to I in fact of the production of 'free verse' to than the 'google search' for a picture.  That being said as a reminder to I this was done to keep in the 'Hold' as I had decided to not write publicly anymore.  Due to events of interest correlation of frustration to the posting has obviously brought simplicity to complexity of communication versus silents.  Reminding 'self' to date of this post held for purpose and purchase of standing,  June 11th, 2016 holds as the dressage of *wikipedia on course to study movements of the mind's sight.
From *Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Aesthetic" redirects here. For the 19th century art movement, see Aestheticism.
Aesthetics, or the philosophy of art, is the study of beauty and taste. It is about interpreting works of art and art movements or theories. The term aesthetic is also used to designate a particular style, for example the "chess aesthetics", the "japanese aesthetics".
As well as being applied to art, aesthetics can also be applied to cultural objects. Aesthetic design principles include ornamentation, edge delineation, texture, flow, solemnity, symmetry, color, granularity, the interaction of sunlight and shadows, transcendence, and harmony.
The word aesthetic is also an adjective and adverb relating to cosmetology and medicine, as in aesthetic medicine.
Also spelt æsthetics and esthetics, the word is derived from the Ancient Greek αἰσθητικός (aisthetikos, meaning "esthetic, sensitive, sentient, pertaining to sense perception"), which in turn was derived from αἰσθάνομαι (aisthanomai, meaning "I perceive, feel, sense").[1]

History of aesthetics in western philosophy[edit]

The idea of the aesthetic developed from the idea of taste and beauty. Before the early 1700s, thinkers developed general theories of proportion and harmony, detailed most specifically in architecture and music. An extended, philosophical reflection on aesthetics emerged with the widening of leisure activities in the eighteenth century.[2]
In the 1700s, Edmund Burke and David Hume tried to explain aesthetic concepts such as beauty with empirical evidence, by connecting them with typical individuals' responses. They sought a basis for an objectivity of personal reactions.[3]
In the 1800s psychologist Wilhelm Wundt showed that interest is generally related to complexity of stimulus. To arouse interest an object should be neither boringly simple nor overly complex; thus complexity could be an objective measure. It is now known, for instance, that judgments of facial beauty in humans are a matter of averageness and symmetry.[2]
The analysis of individual experience and behavior based on experiment is a central part of experimental aesthetics, a field founded byGustav Theodor Fechner in the 1800s.
Immanuel Kant insisted that aesthetic concepts are essentially subjective, but have some objectivity since feelings of pleasure and pain can be universal responses to certain stimuli.
Recently theorists have been interested in ways that aesthetic concepts are constructed out of social mores and practices. Evaluations of beauty may well be linked to desirability, economic, political, or moral value. One might judge a Lamborghini to be beautiful partly because it is desirable as a status symbol, or we might judge it to be repulsive partly because it signifies for us over-consumption and offends our political or moral values.[4]
As late as 1912 it was normal in the West to assume that all art aims at beauty, and thus that anything that wasn't trying to be beautiful couldn't count as art. The cubistsdadaistsStravinsky, and many later art movements struggled against this conception that beauty was central to the definition of art, with such success that, according to Danto, "Beauty had disappeared not only from the advanced art of the 1960s but from the advanced philosophy of art of that decade as well."
In the 1930s, Walter Benjamin, in his essay The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, argued that, in the absence of any traditional, ritualistic value, art in the age of mechanical reproduction would inherently be based on the practice of politics. John Bergercontinued in this direction with Ways of Seeing, in which he criticizes traditional Western cultural aesthetics by raising questions about hidden ideologies in visual images.
In 1946, William K. Wimsatt and Monroe Beardsley published the essay The Intentional Fallacy, in which they argued strongly against the relevance of an author's intention, or "intended meaning" in the analysis of a literary work. For Wimsatt and Beardsley, the words on the page were all that mattered; importation of meanings from outside the text was considered irrelevant, and potentially distracting. In another essay, "The Affective Fallacy," which served as a kind of sister essay to "The Intentional Fallacy", Wimsatt and Beardsley also discounted the reader's personal/emotional reaction to a literary work as a valid means of analyzing a text. This fallacy would later be repudiated by theorists from the reader-response school of literary theory. Ironically, one of the leading theorists from this school, Stanley Fish, was himself trained by New Critics. Fish criticizes Wimsatt and Beardsley in his essay "Literature in the Reader" (1970).[5]
In 1959 Frank Sibley wrote that aesthetic concepts were not rule- or condition-governed, but required a heightened form of perception, which one might call taste, sensitivity, or judgment.

Scientific analysis of aesthetics[edit]


Initial image of a Mandelbrot setzoom sequence with continuously colored environment
In the 1990s, Jürgen Schmidhuber described an algorithmic theory of beauty which takes the subjectivity of the observer into account and postulates: among several observations classified as comparable by a given subjective observer, the aesthetically most pleasing one is the one with the shortest description, given the observer's previous knowledge and his particular method for encoding the data. This is closely related to the principles of algorithmic information theory and minimum description length. For example: mathematical beauty. Another example describes an aesthetically pleasing human face whose proportions can be described with very little information, drawing inspiration from less detailed 15th century proportion studies by Leonardo da Vinci and Albrecht Dürer. Schmidhuber's theory explicitly distinguishes between what is beauty and what is interesting, stating that the latter corresponds to the first derivative of subjectively perceived beauty. The premise is that any observer continually tries to improve the predictability and compressibility of the observations by discovering regularities such as repetitions and symmetry and self-similarity.
Mathematical considerations, such as symmetry and complexity, are used for analysis in theoretical aesthetics. The fact that judgments of beauty and judgments of truth both are influenced by processing fluency has been presented as an explanation for why beauty is sometimes equated with truth.[6] Recent research found that people use beauty as an indication for truth in mathematical pattern tasks.[7]
Computer scientists have attempted to develop automated methods to infer aesthetic quality of images. Typically, these approaches follow a machine learning approach, where large numbers of manually rated photographs are used to teach a computer about what visual properties are of relevance to aesthetic quality. The Acquine engine, developed atPenn State University, rates natural photographs uploaded by users.[8] There have also been relatively successful attempts with regard to chess and music.[9]
In Evolutionary aesthetics, the basic aesthetic preferences of humans are argued to be a product of evolutionary adaptations.[10] For example, body symmetry may be valued inphysical attractiveness because it may indicate good health.

Aesthetic systems[edit]

Japanese aesthetics[edit]


Sōji-ji, of the Soto Zen school
The study of Japanese aesthetics only started a little over two hundred years ago in the West. The Japanese aesthetic is a set of ancient ideals which underpin much of Japanese cultural and aesthetic norms for what is considered tasteful or beautiful. While seen as a philosophy in Western societies, the concept of aesthetics in Japan is seen as an integral part of daily life.

Indian aesthetics[edit]

Indian aesthetics evolved with an emphasis on inducing special spiritual or philosophical states in the audience, or with representing them as symbols.

Chess aesthetics[edit]

Chess aesthetics, or beauty in chess is appreciated by both players and chess composers. In some tournaments there are prizes for brilliancy (not just for winning a match). There are books published featuring chess problems or puzzles that emphasize their aesthetic aspect. Factors about a game or move sequence (also referred to as a combination) that might cause it to be regarded as 'brilliant' include: expediency, disguise, sacrifice, correctness, preparation, paradox, unity, and originality.

Music aesthetics[edit]

In the pre-modern tradition, the aesthetics of music explored the mathematical and cosmological dimensions of rhythmic and harmonic organization. In the eighteenth century, focus shifted to the experience of hearing music, and thus to questions about its beauty and human enjoyment.

Mathematical beauty[edit]

Mathematicians consider mathematical beauty to be a desirable quality in their work. Comparisons are often made with music and poetry.