The Golden Mean and the Physics of Aesthetics

A horizon is perspectival. There are no horizons without perceivers. One sense of the word 'environment' has that logic, noticing the modifiers. My environment is rather like my horizon. I take it with me as I move through the world. Horizons require an attention span. Analogously, my environment has an owner. We can spell this 'environment' with a lower case e. Arnold Berleant concludes: 'This is what environment means: a fusion of organic awareness, of meanings both conscious and unaware, of geographical location, of physical presence, personal time, pervasive movement. . . . There are no surroundings separate from...