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[doteatop]

 jennifer: want to hear something strange?
 robert: sure
 jennifer: it used to be that when I got very tired, I'd start to think only in spanish
 robert: haha
 jennifer: now that i'm very tired a lot and watching anime...
 robert: haha
 jennifer: the other day someone greeted me in spanish, and I answered in japanese
  then I tried to think of how to say

Comments

[auranja]

they don't sit around and go, man, i'm pretty

I've often thought that very thing about butterflies!

[innertwists]

Brilliant evolutionary adaptation to one's environment /is/ beautiful, even when it doesn't result in something pretty like a butterfly.

[featherfinyipp]

I agree with this.

[doteatop]

Sure, I can appreciate that point of view, at least, but not the beauty I was getting at. I meant the experience of beauty.

[doteatop]

Sure I'll buy that. Why not? I can sympathise with birds chirping as-or-more easily than many people and their enterprises =]

But does appreciating beauty confer an evolutionary advantage?

[doteatop]

Some things we recognize as beautiful do have a biological basis -- attraction to flowering plants which later yield fruit, to the sound of creeks and streams, to the bright smell of mint leaves that settle the stomach. Humans find familiarity to be beautiful. Also totally new things.

Ah, this is true.