[exmarine]

I think General Re already explained it to you. Aesthetics is in part hardwired and in part cultural.

I see... you have no science - just assertions. Is a sublime sunset hardwired or cultural?

[CobaltBlue]

Is a sublime sunset hardwired or cultural?

Beats me.

What do you think?

[js1138]

Is a sublime sunset hardwired or cultural?

A sublime sunset is nothing without an interpretive viewer, just as there are no faces in the clouds without an imaginative viewer. Our response is either hard-wired, culturally conditioned, or some of both. There is nothing inherent in the sunset.