PHL 317K Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Uncanny Valley, List Of Muppets, Evolutionary Psychology
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Social constructs usually determine the aspects of beauty. Evolutionary psychology on beauty: honest signals of health of fitness. This is like when you say you feel like you"re living in a movie. Uncanny valley - so close to perfection that it"s weird. This phenomena can be seen through the people that try to look like barbie and. Socrates, plato, aristotle (the last two are two of the most influential western thinkers. ) Plato talks less worldly; he"s not into the world"s problems and says everything is minimal because our souls travel farther than our problems . Aristotle, on the other hand, is very down to earth and worried with worldly problems. He wants a fast solution to a problem of the status quo. A priestess taught socrates that when you love, you"re constantly missing something. In the beginning, the physical attributes are one of the most important things.
