You seem to suggest a couple of times that the aesthetic sense sometimes picks up on things that the rational sense misses. What’s an example of that that you’ve experienced?
My experience has been, though there are many intuitions that have something useful to say, it’s been rare that the aesthetic sense has disagreed with the rest of the system and turned out to be onto anything. It’s prone to getting tied in knots and projecting superficial readings onto the situation that don’t make any sense. It could be onto something.. but I’m never sure. It sometimes feels like it only constructs reality, never reflects or explains them.
I think if you replace ‘aesthetic sense’ with ‘System 1’/‘gut feelings’ the post makes more sense. Taking ethics specifically, I think a lot of cases of “naive consequentialism” could be seen as following one’s rational sense despite the protests of one’s aesthetic sense.
Maybe we shouldn’t completely conflate ‘aesthetic sense’ with ‘System 1’ but I personally really like this framing.
You seem to suggest a couple of times that the aesthetic sense sometimes picks up on things that the rational sense misses. What’s an example of that that you’ve experienced?
My experience has been, though there are many intuitions that have something useful to say, it’s been rare that the aesthetic sense has disagreed with the rest of the system and turned out to be onto anything. It’s prone to getting tied in knots and projecting superficial readings onto the situation that don’t make any sense. It could be onto something.. but I’m never sure. It sometimes feels like it only constructs reality, never reflects or explains them.
I think if you replace ‘aesthetic sense’ with ‘System 1’/‘gut feelings’ the post makes more sense. Taking ethics specifically, I think a lot of cases of “naive consequentialism” could be seen as following one’s rational sense despite the protests of one’s aesthetic sense.
Maybe we shouldn’t completely conflate ‘aesthetic sense’ with ‘System 1’ but I personally really like this framing.