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    The Gap Between Aesthetic Science and Aesthetic Experience
    Journal of Consciousness Studies 24 (1-2): 184-213. 2017.
    For over a century we have attempted to understand human aesthetic experience using scientific methods. A typical experiment could be described as reductive and quasi-psychophysical. We vary some aspect of the stimulus and systematically measure some aspect of the aesthetic response. The limitations of this approach can be categorized as problems on the Y axis and the X axis. The most enigmatic components of aesthetic experience include inclination to cry, aesthetic rapture, a sense of the subli…Read more