Today I learned a term that captures why I care about aesthetics: introjection. It refers to the mind’s tendency to structure the internal world with patterns perceived externally. I worry that if we make environments ugly/homogenous/boring then our minds follow suit.
- Introjection - the mind’s tendency to structure the internal world with patterns perceived externally.
- "You can become beautiful by surrounding yourself with beautiful things: clothes, furniture, paintings, people" - not sure I agree with this, or at least the word "can" is doing a lot of work.
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