What is it about?
What are aesthetic emotions? 12 million web pages give not a single explanation. Aesthetic emotions motivate learning. Near the top of the mental hierarchy they motivate understanding the meaning and purpose of life, and we experience them as emotions of the beautiful. This theoretical conclusion has been proved by psychological experiments.
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Why is it important?
When you attend a museum of contemporary art, often you doubt if curators understand the beauty. And indeed most do not. Courses on aesthetics relate beauty to forms of art objects, to color and shape. But few understand that the beautiful must be meaningful. In my collection of contemporary art there are beautiful paintings, and they are meaningful.
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It is a revolutionary understanding of the beauty. The first saying this was Kant in 1790, but he remained misunderstood until now cognitive-mathematical theory proved that he was right.
Prof Leonid Perlovsky
Harvard University
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This page is a summary of: Cognitive functions of aesthetic emotions, July 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE),
DOI: 10.1109/ijcnn.2014.6889444.
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