This matches my general model. There are artifacts of human-style neural processing which don’t introspect easily, and most attempts at explanation are ad-hoc and untestable. Emotions are a key element of this, and aesthetics are deeply related to, and possibly just the same as, emotions.
Note that these things are mutable over time, both for ineffable reasons and intentionally via practice. You can decide to see something as beautiful, and with a few months or years of practice, it will become so. And things you once adored become so-so or worse as you age and change.
This matches my general model. There are artifacts of human-style neural processing which don’t introspect easily, and most attempts at explanation are ad-hoc and untestable. Emotions are a key element of this, and aesthetics are deeply related to, and possibly just the same as, emotions.
Note that these things are mutable over time, both for ineffable reasons and intentionally via practice. You can decide to see something as beautiful, and with a few months or years of practice, it will become so. And things you once adored become so-so or worse as you age and change.