TY - GEN ID - cogprints7591 UR - http://cogprints.org/7591/ A1 - Mangan, Dr. Bruce B. Y1 - 2008/// N2 - 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. KW - Aesthetics KW - Feeling of Knowing KW - Fringe KW - Rightness KW - Structure of Consciousness KW - William James TI - Representation, Rightness, and the Fringe SP - 75 AV - public EP - 82 ER -