RE: Non-overlapping magesteria
February 17, 2015 at 7:16 pm
(This post was last modified: February 17, 2015 at 7:20 pm by Thumpalumpacus.)
(February 17, 2015 at 1:33 pm)watchamadoodle Wrote: Science could measure our reactions to different stimuli, create hypotheses about these reactions, test these hypotheses experimentally, ...
And what would those numbers say about the nature of beauty?
(February 17, 2015 at 1:36 pm)robvalue Wrote: Beauty could be examined by the brain states it produced in the guy experiencing it I guess.
But yeah, an opinion on something is fine, it's not a way of finding stuff out, and it's not a claim. No uber-method is being pretended.
I think that art gives us insight into ourselves, which is very useful information. The fact that there are a multiplicity of personal views on art in its many forms makes me think it's so intensely personal that science cannot really address it in any meaningful fashion. Sure, you can take PET scans and pulse-rates, but what does that actually tell you?