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To some extent, of course, the pleasure derived from art is no different from that evoked by “the real thing,” such that one of the joys of, say, viewing a pleasant country scene may be the extent of which it re-creates the pleasure of actually experiencing the real thing. The likelihood for example, is that both events induce a similar secretion of satisfaction-inducing neurosecretions. This might seem to be an evolutionary problem, insofar as it can be maladaptive to focus on a simulacrum rather than the genuine article. But it may also be an unavoidable consequence of having adaptively strong proclivities and predispositions; perhaps you can’t have adaptive preferences for certain situations and thus a neuronal sensitivity to stimuli that reflect those situations, without the other a vulnerability to being fooled. Perhaps, the, in the case of art, we should substitute “willingness: o “benevolent capacity” for “vulnerability.”

In the immense history of life on earth, art is but a very recent development. Since it emergence with Homo sapiens, there has been insufficient time. . . for the evolution of extensive neural machinery adapted specifically to the interpretation of pictures. The implication is inescapable: Pictures most appeal to us, to the extent that they do, because they engage neural machinery that had previously evolved for other purposes. ~ Page 174

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