**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.