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<p>Die Seite wurde neu angelegt: „ == Reference == Humphrey, N.K. (1973). The illusion of beauty. Perception, 2: 429–439. == DOI == == Abstract == &quot;Beauty is truth, truth beauty&quot; to the p…“</p> <p><b>Neue Seite</b></p><div><br /> <br /> == Reference ==<br /> Humphrey, N.K. (1973). The illusion of beauty. Perception, 2: 429–439. <br /> <br /> == DOI ==<br /> <br /> == Abstract ==<br /> &quot;Beauty is truth, truth beauty&quot; to the poet. But a biologist is bound, I think, to<br /> regard beauty—at least man-made beauty—as something closer to a lie. A lie,<br /> admittedly, of a unique kind, but a kind to which both men and animals are<br /> specially vulnerable.<br /> If I give a hungry dog a solution of saccharine it will lap it up; if I show a cock<br /> robin a bundle of feathers with a red patch on its underside the robin will attack it;<br /> and if I show a man an abstract painting or play him a piece of music he will, if he<br /> thikks it beautiful, stop to watch or listen. There is, I believe, a formal similarity in<br /> all these cases. In each we have an animal performing a useful and relevant piece of<br /> behaviour towards an inappropriate sensory stimulus. But there is, I agree, a rather<br /> basic difference, namely that in the first two cases we have a good scientific<br /> explanation of what is going on, while in the third we&#039;re almost ignorant. With the<br /> saccharine and the red-breasted bundle of feathers we know what the artificial,<br /> &#039;illusory&#039;, stimulus corresponds to in nature and we know how the dog&#039;s or the<br /> robin&#039;s behaviour would in normal circumstances contribute to its biological survival. ...<br /> <br /> == Extended Abstract ==<br /> <br /> == Bibtex == <br /> <br /> == Used References ==<br /> Bateson, P. P. G., 1973, &quot;Internal influences on early learning in birds&quot;, in Constraints on Learning,<br /> <br /> Eds R.A.Hinde and J.Stevenson-Hinde (Academic Press, London), pp.101-116.<br /> <br /> Bell, C, 1913, Art (Chatto and Windus, London).<br /> <br /> Empson, W., 1930, Seven Types of Ambiguity (Chatto and Windus, London).<br /> <br /> Hadfield, M., 1936, The Gardener&#039;s Companion (Dent, London).<br /> <br /> Herbart, J. H., 1808, Practical Philosophy.<br /> <br /> Hopkins, G. M., 1865, &quot;On the origin of beauty: a platonic dialogue&quot;, in G.M.Hopkins: Journals<br /> and Papers, EdsH.House and G.Storey (Oxford University Press, London, 1959).<br /> <br /> Humphrey, C, 1971, &quot;Some ideas of Saussure applied to Buryat magical drawings&quot;, in Social<br /> Anthropology and Language, Ed. E.Ardener (Tavistock Publications, London), pp.271-290.<br /> <br /> Humphrey, N. K., McManus, C , 1973, &quot;Status and the left cheek&quot;, New Scientist, 59, 437-439.<br /> <br /> Kagan, J., 1970, &quot;Attention and psychological change in the young child&quot;, Science, 170, 826-830.<br /> <br /> Levi-Strauss, C, 1963, Structural Anthropology (Basic Books, New York).<br /> <br /> McLelland, D. C, Atkinson, J. W., Clark, R. A., Lowell, E. L., 1953, The Achievement Motive<br /> (Appleton-Century, New York).<br /> <br /> Pahlen, K., 1963, Music of the World; A History (Spring Books, London).<br /> <br /> Pavlov, I. P., 1928, &quot;The reflex of purpose&quot;, in Lectures on Conditioned Reflexes, Voll<br /> (Lawrence and Wishart, London).<br /> <br /> Reid, T., 1785, Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man.<br /> <br /> Whitehead, A. N., 1919, An Enquiry concerning the Principles of Natural Knowledge (Cambridge<br /> University Press, Cambridge).<br /> <br /> Wilbur, R., 1956, &quot;Poetry and the landscape&quot;, in The New Landscape in Art and Science,<br /> Ed. G.Kepes (Paul Theobald, Chicago), pp.86-89.<br /> <br /> <br /> == Links ==<br /> === Full Text === <br /> http://www.humphrey.org.uk/papers/1973illusionofbeauty.pdf<br /> <br /> [[intern file]]<br /> <br /> === Sonstige Links ===</div>

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