Wills, Patrick & Daniel, Bruce: Meta Aesthetics: A Descriptive Account of Reality from the Inside Looking In

This paper develops Meta-Aesthetics (MA) as a general philosophical framework for understanding how reality becomes accessible to any system — human, institutional, or artificial — without presupposing that reality is ever encountered as a unified, exhaustive whole. Rather than treating aesthetics as a domain restricted to art, taste, or subjective experience, Meta-Aesthetics reconceives aesthetic channels as causal pathways through which information propagates, and through which a system has le