Caves: The Origins of the Aesthetic Mind

World Futures 65 (8):605-612 (2009)
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In this article, I deal with the concept of aesthetics in its broader sense: the ability of feeling, thinking, and creating. My theory is that this aesthetics was born 40,000 years ago in the Paleolitical caves and that it has been characterizing human creativity from its remote origins up to now. Following this theory, we should not define human creativity as a greater cleverness than that of other living species; however, we should think of it as a refined aesthetic ability of mind in connecting different worlds, enacting different levels of communication, and creating images and symbols

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