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Discuss “The science of aesthetics”

Paul Klee, an early 20th-century artist, once said, “Art does not reproduce the visible, it makes things visible.” Art has a way of capturing the unfathomable, of translating emotions beyond the capabilities of science and theory. But art can do more than explain our feelings; it can help explain our minds.

Aesthetics, the study of personal taste, has always been a subject of philosophical debate. Probably the most argued aesthetic concept is the origin of beauty: Is it really in the eye of the beholder, or is beauty a specific quality, independent of its audience?

In recent years, neuroesthetics emerged as a branch of aesthetics equipped with potential new answers to this question. Semir Zeki, part of the Wellcome Department of Imaging...

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