Art is Not the Icing on the Cake, but Constant Brain Training. On Superstimuli and Beauty Neurons

Is it possible to establish a scale according to which one can estimate that a given object is a work of art? Shouldn’t the fact that we are moved by a particular image or piece of music be of sufficient value to us? – Katarzyna Sankowska-Nazawicz talks about beauty neurons and superstimuli in art with Diana Sałacka, spokesperson of the Copernicus Center for Interdisciplinary Studies at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków.