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FullCircle -> RE: to build a human brain..... and kill the soul? (7/28/2009 4:20:15 AM)
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The funny thing is that all people have different ideas of what beauty is although there are some common ideas such as the female form, you have to wonder though if people consider this beautiful due to it being associated with a secure pleasant past experience in earlier life? Similarly the vast majority of people probably don't associate insects such as wasps with beauty even though they possess similar curves, the striking colours also indicate danger rather than colourful beauty in this instance and give the impression of nasty rather than beauty. The association with being stung or perhaps the experience of a parent warning you of the dangers of such. Perhaps you could argue that something can be both beautiful and dangerous such as a shark but a shark compared to a dolphin is pretty ugly for most people. A smile compared to a frown or a scowl which is more beautiful? Probably not the most threatening one.
I’m not so sure we are so different; I think if everyone was capable of living in a common society with the same common external influences throughout their life and not ending up following the same trends and fashions then I’d say a human soul does exist. As it stands a lot of people end up following trends and the common idea of beauty varies somewhat over time. We influence one another as a whole but this for me is not really different from a single person influencing a machine and telling it what to look for.
Ever had that experience where the same person seems slightly different depending on who they have mixed with socially? This is because everyone that meets someone else and sees things they like about that person will emulate their attributes; if five people shared the same space for ten years at the beginning of the shared experience they’d be individuals due to coming from different past experiences but at the end of it they’d probably be normalised and personality wise you wouldn’t easily be able to tell one from another. Individuality is very subjective to me.
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