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The main thing I learned from watching the videos, and articles were that aesthetics is a philosophical study of beauty and art. Many may have a different interpretation of what these aesthetics are, but they tie in together when beauty and art are being described. Art is something that teaches us what beauty is. When we see a sculpture, or painting we describe it as beautiful and this is something that teaches us how to appreciate the art work.
Out of all the philosophers theories on aesthetics the theory that I feel was most important was Platos (4th century B.C). He said "There is a beauty by which all things are beautiful." This is important because like I mentioned before art is described in all aspects of beautiful. A piece of hard can look grusome and gory, but it can still be viewed as beautiful because of the story that is told behind it.
I loved the way that Changeux, and Ramachandran described their definitions of aesthetics, and art. Changeux described aesthetics to be a something that humans produce to broadcast, symbols. This is something that can be used to teach us human different things. In Ramachandran's part, I found it interesting that in the beginning he was not interested in art, and did not develop a passion for it right away.

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