The Colors of Fritillaria
David Pilling via pbs (Tue, 08 Dec 2020 06:55:56 PST)

Hi Arnold,

On 08/12/2020 14:16, Arnold Trachtenberg via pbs wrote:

There is a very clever chap (David Deutsch) who advanced the theory that
there is objective beauty, on the grounds that flowers are attractive to
people as well as insects.

One problem is all the flowers we see have been selected by people.

He reckons that since there is objective beauty, people are making the
world more beautiful.

https://nature.com/articles/526S16a.pdf/…

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David Pilling
http://www.davidpilling.com/
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