Feb 25 2025 50 mins 3
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Dr. Anjan Chatterjee is a renowned professor and the founding Director of the Penn Center for Neuroaesthetics. He's a leading expert on how our brains perceive beauty and art, and author of an engaging book on this topic: “The Aesthetic Brain: How We Evolved to Desire Beauty and Enjoy Art"
In this beautiful conversation, we explore:
- the intersection of beauty, conversation, and the human brain
- how our biological evolution has left us in a world that often feels disconnected from our innate ways of communicating
- the aesthetic qualities of conversations, the biases we hold toward beauty, and how cultural representations influence our perceptions
- the importance of awareness in mitigating biases
- how to embrace complex ideas, rather than simplify them
Links
Dr. Anjan Chatterjee and the Penn Center for Neuroaesthetics (PCfN) online
Dr. Anjan Chatterjee on Bluesky
The Aesthetic Brain: How We Evolved to Desire Beauty and Enjoy Art
