Where Does Beauty Come From?: 07-18-2024

1. The features of beauty come from the mind, not the object of beauty.
2. The sensations that arise from the object of beauty are from the focus of attention directed by mental maps of what constitutes beauty onto that object.
3. The mind maps features onto an object that it values, and these features then become points of focus that produce sensations based on the overlaying of those maps over the object.
4. The idealism of the object does not come from the object but from the mind focusing on ideal aspects of the object and then refocusing on sensations from those as a separate ideal (mental object) considered intrinsic to the object of beauty.
5. Idealism and perceived beauty occur when some object is identified and named as beautiful or perfect. The beauty and ideal images attributed to the object are from focusing the mind on the object and mental representations of it using principles such as balance, coherence, consistency, complementary contrast, complementary juxtaposition, delicacy, evenness, geometric shape, gracefulness, harmony, order, parallelism, pattern, polish, proportion, regularity, rhythm, smoothness, and symmetry.