Benjamin Cain
Jan 8, 2022

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Of course there's no aesthetic "experience" without a person to experience it. But that doesn't mean the experienced qualities are subjective.

What's objective is creative (and destructive) causality. And where there's creativity, there are aesthetic considerations.

I agree that at some level of analysis we're natural beings. But at another level, we're not: we're autonomous agents and we live in artificial, intelligently-designed refuges away from the wilderness. That's as unnatural as you can get within a natural universe.

Mind you, I'm only exploring these pantheistic and aesthetic ideas. I don't have full confidence in them, but I suspect they may be needed in an elevated secular society.

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Benjamin Cain
Benjamin Cain

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Ph.D. in philosophy / Knowledge condemns. Art redeems. / https://benjamincain.substack.com / https://ko-fi.com/benjamincain / benjamincain8@gmailDOTcom

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