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The Emergence of the Modern Mind: An Evolutionary Perspective on Aesthetic Experience

Author(s) -

CONSOLI GIANLUCA

Publication year - 2014

Publication title -

the journal of aesthetics and art criticism

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.553

H-Index - 32

eISSN - 1540-6245

pISSN - 0021-8529

DOI - 10.1111/jaac.12059

Subject(s) - perspective (graphical) , aesthetic experience , aesthetics , reading (process) , cognition , psychology , metacognition , cognitive science , art , philosophy , visual arts , linguistics , neuroscience

On the basis of archaeological data and cognitive research, this article proposes an evolutionary story about aesthetic experience, arguing three intertwined theses. Aesthetic experience is adaptive; that is, it represents a specific implementation of the epistemic goal of knowing. It refunctionalizes antecedents and precursors: play and dreaming, technology and the ability to manipulate, and proto‐aesthetic elements and aesthetic preferences. Mind and aesthetic experience co‐evolve; that is, aesthetic experience requires mind reading and metacognition, and it helps them to reach their advanced metarepresentational architecture.

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