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Dear Eduardo, I¹m not sure what the benefits are of using this distinction between ³aesthesis² and ³aesthetics² here. Do you mean a ³state of mind² for ³aesthesis² or simply perception as a brain event? The knowledge that perception is bringing me pleasure (state of mind) is a different kind of pleasure to the pleasure of pre-conscious seeing/feeling/smelling/touching/hearing. That is, pre-conscious events in the brain are affects of a kind but they only become affects as states of mind when they enter consciousness. Hence, they are not directly related to the object of perception (they are mediated by the act of consciousness) and hence we are talking about ³aesthetics². Does the eye take its own pleasures from what the eyes perceives? Quite possibly but not in any way that makes sense to consciousness. When the eye looks away because of strong light, is it expressing displeasure? Cheers keith On 20/10/2015 9:55 pm, "PhD-Design - This list is for discussion of PhD studies and related research in Design on behalf of Eduardo corte-real" <[log in to unmask] on behalf of [log in to unmask]> wrote: >Dear Keith and Chuck, >I carefully used the word ³Aesthesis² and not Aesthetics. Aesthesis is a >human state of mind from which a field of inquiry derives. That field is >Aesthetics. ----------------------------------------------------------------- PhD-Design mailing list <[log in to unmask]> Discussion of PhD studies and related research in Design Subscribe or Unsubscribe at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/phd-design -----------------------------------------------------------------