What is the scientific explanation for us gaining aesthetic pleasure

>>9092118
Are mods still banning you and you have to come up with this malarkey word soup in order to try not to get banned?

>>9092118

Not every human behavior can be explained through evolutionary approach.

>>9092130
Think you have the wrong guy.
What's difficult to understand about my question? And are you implying that it isn't a legitimate question?

>>9092131
I'm interested in any scientific explanation related to answering my question. But shouldn't this be something that evolutionists should try to explain? Wonder at the natural world is a truly bizzare thing, no animal other than is does it. And I can't think of any reason why it would be useful for natural selection.

>>9092118
In Philosophy (aesthetics) this feeling is called "Sublime"
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sublime_(philosophy)

>>9092147
No animal other than humans**

Though it's possible some of our larger brained ancestors did the same.

Science cannot answers questions about consciousness, no matter how much it wants to, because science is done with consciousness. It's like an eyeball trying to look at itself.

>>9092149
I know there's a whole field of philosophy dealing with this question. I'm not interested in a philosophical answer, especially one not grounded in science.

>>9092147
Your question is almost on par with requesting an evolutionary explanation for why there are footfags or trans people.
Some phenomena simply can not be explained through the lenses of evolution.

>>9092118 >>9092155 >>9092165
OP's question could be answered by Neurology & Psychology.

Psychology could do their Job. However now Psychology is more concerned with useless bullshit like MBTI Astrology, Experiments that don't Replicate, Debating if IQ is important or not.

>>9092165
So are you saying science doesn't have the tools to deal with these questions by its very nature or that we are simply too backwards at this point in time?.

>>9092118
It means you're from reddit (https : // www . reddit . com / r / earthporn, to be precise) and should fuck off right back there.

>>9092342
>he knows the precise link to reddits community of nature wankers

Get out. You dont belong here.

>>9092118
>...US gaining aesthetic pleasure...
Speak for yourself, not others.

>>9092345
>he knows there are nature wankers on reddit
You have to go back.

>>9092345
u 1st

>>9092342
>I hate Reddit but I browse it all the time.

>>9092346
>he doesn't find staring at stars on a beach at night aesthetically pleasing
People that don't suffer from mental impairments, depression, or autism do. Which of the aforementioned afflictions do you have?

>>9092352
>I love Reddit and I browse it all the time.

Time to le leave.

>>9092147
So being aware of how vast and diverse nature is and having the mental capacity to see one's place in relation to it is not evolutionary advantageous?

>>9092358
I'm not saying I don't find those things "aesthetically pleasing".

I'm just not assuming that everyone does, then labeling those that don't as mentally impaired.

>>9092363
>Trust me guys, I totally hate Reddit, what a bunch of fags amirite?

>>9092118
Conditioning by Hollywood. You see characters in movies marvel and choke up at le beautiful sunset with pretty colors or le mystical mountain in the distance and copy their behavior.

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>>9092118
Now, it is a legitimate question to ask, and I think it has to do with the drive for exploration. Humans (fit natural ones) are the species that have the ability to travel on foot for the longest distance without resting due to a combination of pic related, omnivorous capabilities to stave off hunger with local flora, and the human body's ability to cannibalize itself more safely and effectively than the bodies of many other complex species. As such, humans evolved as persistence hunters, banding together and advancing toward prey animals until the prey became too exhausted to run further. This changed with the advent of tools & farming, but that happened on a fairly short evolutionary time scale, so the human body is still very much built for long-distance travel.

To supplement this, the more evolutionarily fit humans were the ones who were not only willing to venture out into nature after the prey, but who also derived some pleasure from the experience of hunting. Looking out onto the world is what early man saw before he had his meat, so you feel a primal sensation of enjoyment when you see the same. It's akin to how cats that have never been exposed to hunting for their entire lives still love to chase small, swift objects around. It's hardwired in as a psychological trigger that stimulus x invokes pleasure, even if you can't pinpoint how or why it would do so from your own experiences.

But that's just my inference. I'm no expert in anthropology.

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>>9092118
>What is the hard problem of consciousness?

>>9092174
Don't forget figuring out how to define the autism spectrum which they haven't done yet.

>>9092641
Kek

>>9092147
You must be retarded if you think advanced nonhuman animals can't appreciate natural beauty
Why do you think advanced animals love natural surroundings, and go depressed and even insane when in dull artificial enviroments

>>9092118
I would say in part because you are socially conditioned to do so. Though mainly because liking and acquiring information is necessary and biological-driven.

Also this may be of interest:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroesthetics

>>9092717
They still haven't nailed it down to:
>Basically that genius form of aspbergers.
>That annoying and retarded form of aspbergers.
>Straight up retarded.
>Very retarded.
>Potato.
It should be thy fucking simple.

>>9092118
>>9092147

jesus, i knew /sci/ was all into math & physics, but i never knew how downright retarded they were about anything outside their fields of expertise. don't know how so many people gleaned "muh hard problem of consciousness" when you clearly state you want an evolutionary reason.

>>9092460

the ONE answer that might be valid, and it's from the tripfag. fookin ell, this place is backwards

>>9092130
What the fuck is wrong with you? The question is perfectly valid. OP is asking if anyone knows why people get all fuzzy on the inside looking at certain arbitrary things.