Why are flowers "beautiful"?
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Re: Why are flowers "beautiful"?
Crucible wrote:there is no "chicken egg" question.
The question is : how do you support this ?My point is, that it doesn't taste sweet because we like it but vice versa
because it tastes sweet even to people, who don't like sweet. How do you support "like thereof it is sweet"?
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Re: Why are flowers "beautiful"?
We are animals that need sugars. The "liking or not liking" you mention, is normally a matter of what level of sweeetness is pleasant to a particular individual at a particular time.
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aptitude wrote:I am not understanding this discussion. Are you talking about the evolution of sweet receptors, or how sweetness is perceived?
Not sweet receptors, but sugar receptors. Just like salt receptors. As with light receptors in our eyes - we don't have cute receptors in our eyes. That part is in the mind.
Re: Why are flowers "beautiful"?
Crucible wrote:We are animals that need sugars. The "liking or not liking" you mention, is normally a matter of what level of sweeetness is pleasant to a particular individual at a particular time.
yeah, but that's all the discussion about, that we like the cake because it is sweet
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Re: Why are flowers "beautiful"?
The above is why I tried to get you to talk about salt.JackBean wrote:Crucible wrote:We are animals that need sugars. The "liking or not liking" you mention, is normally a matter of what level of sweeetness is pleasant to a particular individual at a particular time.
yeah, but that's all the discussion about, that we like the cake because it is sweet
How about cute babies, then ?
The original question would relate to "why" babies are cute.
Your answer would then be "we like them because they are cute" - but that does not say why they are cute - or why we like cute things. There is no inherent cuteness or beauty in a colour, in a shape, or arrangement.
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Because when you switch words, from "sugar" to "sweetness", you seem to have a mental glitch happeningJackBean wrote:what would the salt change about that? We still like or dislike it, because it's salty, not the other way round
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It's fully nonsense. Why not just eat salt ?JackBean wrote:really? What's so nonsense about "we like salty food because it is salty or we dislike salty food because it is salty"?
We like cute babies because they are cute. That's your total input. Where are the cuteness receptors in the eyes ?
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you're making me sick of this. I will never eat any sugar or salt anymore. Happy now?
why not?
Crucible wrote:It's fully nonsense. Why not just eat salt ?JackBean wrote:really? What's so nonsense about "we like salty food because it is salty or we dislike salty food because it is salty"?
why not?
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