a beautiful mind.
So I was supposed to meet someone at a coffeehouse at 4pm, so I decided that it would be nice to leave a little early and get a little reading done. So I read a chapter from philosophy who needs it before something caught my eye, it was something very simple just some light shining through a glass of tea, created a nice golden tint. I then started thinking about how that was rather pretty and then I started wondering about what made stuff astheticly pleasing. Which lead to what is beauty what can explain it is there a mathamatical process to say that if a wave of light bent at a certain angle of a certain wave length can say This; This is beauty this will be what makes you appreciate it and for these reasons. I thought about if music can be beautiful and followed up the thought with the knowledge that music is just math in essence isn't it? I theory of music follow that if you have these instraments doing these things at these times it will please the sences without creating a cacophony it will stimulate a certain connection in your brain. Which lead to is there then a mathamatical corrolation between the connections in your brains (which enable memories) and what you find pleasing? Can thoughts be beautiful? Can words, or are words only beautiful if the thoughts behind it mean that much; but that can't be the case.I've found poetry beautiful words beautiful even if the idea behind it means nothing to me. So I sat staring emptily at the corner where there were people, and started thinking about beauty in people and is the physical beauty behind a person related in anyway shape or form to what their mind presents or is it just a purely astehtic beauty, and whats the difference between astheticly pleasing a beauty? to test this out, I asked someone what their tattoos meant in teh hopes that they just thought they were pretty so I could see if my thoughts of if the tattoos meant anything changed the way I viewed them. This failed as they had meaning. so all in all I got nothing out of the whole event besides just pondering beauty...but it was interesting and worth it in the long run. I still don't know what beauty is or what it can motivate a person to do, but it was nice to grok on it for awhile.