The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #159479   Message #3778663
Posted By: Amos
13-Mar-16 - 09:55 PM
Thread Name: BS: I Love this Idea
Subject: RE: BS: I Love this Idea
The perception of beauty (and other aesthetics) is a universal gift tendered among units of consciousness (high or low) whether human or otherwise engaged. I suspect there are things about humans that cetaceans find beautiful, and perhaps bees may seem beautiful to flowers, or big dogs to little dogs or even, in a frisson-inducing sort fo way, to possums.

A lot of this is intuitive, since the ordinary frameworks of human beauty gifting don't quite work for other organisms. But outside of that framework, it is still quite the commodity exchange.