**Links to**: [[Digestion]], [[Indigestion]], [[Aesthesis]], [[Taste]], [[Perception]], [[Art]], [[Life]], [[Pattern]], [[Patternicity]], [[Pattern recognition]], [[THE PATTERN BUTCHER]], [[Partially-observed Markov-decision process]]. >[[Nietzsche]]: aesthetics is not just a “[French] merry diversion”, and “Art is the highest task and the proper metaphysical activity of this life.” ([[The Birth of Tragedy]]). > >Nietzsche says that aesthetics is just _applied physiology_, says Marina García-Granero (KU Leuven). >Aesthetics is a theory of nature consisting of a multiplicity of centers of experience, since feeling is the felt concrescence of every becoming. Feeling is ‘fully clothed’ with matter and thus partakes in an extensive continuum, but the primordial form of all relation and composition as well as the immediate unity of a mode of existence, its how of feeling, is affective tonality or intensity. > >van Tuinen 2019, p. 58. >When we make an aesthetic judgement about a thing, we do not just gape at it and say: “Oh! How marvellous!” We distinguish between a person who knows what he is talking about and a person who doesn’t. If a person is to admire English poetry, he must know English. Suppose that a Russian who doesn't know English is overwhelmed by a sonnet admitted to be good. We would say that he does not know what is in it. In music this is more pronounced. Suppose there is a person who admires and enjoys what is admitted to be good but can't remember the simplest tunes, doesn't know when the bass comes in, etc. We say he hasn't seen what's in it. We use the phrase 'A man is musical' not so as to call a man musical if he says "Ah!" when a piece of music is played, any more than we call a dog musical if it wags its tail when music is played.” > >Wittgenstein