Claims / C-6J67WVM91X

Conjecture

Beauty is partly objective, Deutsch argues: flowers evolved to signal to insects yet reliably look beautiful to humans, and convergent criteria of beauty solve the problem of creating hard-to-forge signals between parties with too little shared knowledge to trust each other's codes.

Human nature

Evidence 1 passage

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    Those convergent criteria of beauty solve the problem of creating hard-to-forge signals where prior shared knowledge is insufficient to provide them.

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