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Article description: (description ) This attribute controls the content of the description and og:description elements. | Rubber Forehead Aliens as applied to aesthetics rather than physiology, or alternatively the cultural counterpart to No Biochemical Barriers, Alien Arts Are Appreciated when Speculative Fiction depicts arts and entertainment made by one species as finding an audience among aliens. As for how likely this would be to occur, ask yourself the following: What human being would appreciate the works of a species that communicate by emitting scents, with the closest equivalent to a novel being a device that emits smells in order to tell a story, or a "sculpture" consisting of a single scent? Or a painting made by a being blind in the spectrum visible to humans but sighted in frequencies humans cannot perceive? Of course, there are also the psychological differences: What would a species with no concept of fate make of the Iliad, for example? |