A Darwinian theory of beauty
radar.oreilly.com/2010/11/a-darwinian-theory-of-beauty.html
From the page
Saved with the link. Notes from 2007 to 2016 are mostly the page's own words, so this is probably an excerpt.
I love this TED talk by Denis Dutton of Arts & Letters Daily fame. He uses evolution to explain beauty, and it's illustrated in the same style (by the same person) as the RSA talks. I'm particularly drawn to the scientific approach to art, a crossover that positively reeks of the kind of cross-discipline thinking that I encounter at Sci Foo. I'm putting together the program for Kiwi Foo, and I hope to have the same fertile intersection of ideas.