evolution

[Angrboda]

No more than a persons self awareness and ideas about beauty, themselves, certify that the contents of their awareness or that particular standard is based on some aspect of factual reality.

Very beautiful people have been known to see themselves as incredibly ugly and it does seem like that influences some of the actions they take.  Whether or not they are, in fact..ugly..just like whether or not there is..in fact, a god..is immaterial to whether or not a perception can influence mental and physical events.  Whether it's an ability A.

No, it's very material because you've made it material. What something seems is the only reason you've given for believing that certain things are in A. The short walk to a reductio ad absurdum argument is very short indeed.

(ps. I added to the previous post.)