@misc{cogprints7591,
volume = {15},
number = {9},
title = {Representation, Rightness, and the Fringe},
author = {Dr. Bruce B. Mangan},
year = {2008},
pages = {75--82},
journal = {Journal of Consciousness Studies},
keywords = {Aesthetics, Feeling of Knowing, Fringe, Rightness, Structure of Consciousness, William James
},
url = {http://cogprints.org/7591/},
abstract = {So the central question here is phenomenological: What is the nature of the aesthetic zap? For it is this experience, or its promise, which gives art such a deep hold on human life. But the issue of representation, while secondary, is still pregnant with cognitive implications: Why is representation, of all the devices available to an artist, more likely to shift the odds in favour of eliciting and/or intensifying aesthetic experience? Assuming a Darwinian view of our species, it is likely that the answer to both questions will come from understanding how our capacity to enjoy art grows out of normal cognition.}
}