Why is their beauty so appealing to humans? If this beauty has been evolved then for which purpose?
What’s the benefit of so much beauty in nature like ocean waves, sunset, flowers, etc? Is this the objectivity or universality of beauty that everyone can find the stars in the sky and sunset beautiful?
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We evolved to find healthy environments beautiful (appealing). Flowers indicate healthy growing plants, which indicates potential food. Clean ocean waves, again food and other resources. The stars indicate fresh open air. The sunset, daylight and bright colors (food), plus a time of day when many animals are active.
A lot of these are likely a mixed bag of reasons and there’s lots of other reasons you could come up with if you keep thinking, for instance, liking glittering things like the stars because sparkling is a thing that moving water does, etc etc.
We don’t generally find dead rotting plants beautiful, nor muddy swampy water, nor grey cloudy skies, etc. (Not saying that these things can never be considered beautiful, but my point should be obvious.)
The benefit of finding so many things beautiful is to be attracted to things that are good for our survival.
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