Aesthetical criterion in art and science

TL;DR

This paper explores a new aesthetic criterion based on self-organization in complex systems, linking originality in art with scientific and universal principles, and discussing its implications across various fields.

Contribution

It introduces a substantial aesthetics criterion applicable beyond art, connecting originality, self-organization, and truth in complex systems across multiple disciplines.

Findings

Originality linked to self-organization in complex systems

Aesthetics as a universal criterion across arts and sciences

Implications for psychology, education, and culture

Abstract

In the paper, the authors elaborate some recently published research concerning the originality of artworks in terms of self-organization in the complex systems physics. It has been demonstrated that the originality issue such conceived leads to the criterion of a substantial aesthetics whose applicability is not restricted to the fine arts domain only covering also physics, biology, cosmology and other fields construed in the complex systems terms. Moreover, it is about a truth criterion related to the traditional personality conception revealing the ontological context transcendent to the gnoseological dualism of subjective and objective reality that is characteristic of modern science and humanities. Thus, it is considered to be an aesthetical criterion substantiating art and science as well as the other developments of the postmodern era. Its impact to psychology, education, ecology, culture and other humanities is briefly indicated.