X-Message-Number: 11537 Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1999 16:17:06 -0700 From: Mike Perry <> Subject: Aesthetics based on intrinsic features Thomas Donaldson, #11532: "You are simply repeating what you said before. That's hardly an argument." Sorry if I have been over-repetitious. But, to continue another part of our thread a bit further, I do feel that art, poetry, mathematics, etc. are to be judged based on intrinsic features rather than how they were produced. In theory, then, a sculpture could be produced by unconscious nature, though the chances may be small--or not so small. I remember how, as a child, I once found a pebble with a peculiar looking face worn into it, a piece of natural sculpture. When I showed it to my father, he said, "Well I hope I never see anybody with a face like that." You can't win them all, as they say, but he didn't deny that it was a face. Mike Perry Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=11537