@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.} }