two questions about one's looks

1. Is it true that we all look (our facial looks) good to ourselves irrespective of how we look to others in general? Will a person still find a beautiful face staring back when he/she look in the mirror if he/she looks ugly to others?

2. Faces with certain features (skin color, shape, etc.) if possessed by someone that person generally look beautiful to others. Isn't this because of the way our brains are made and how our brains perceive beauty? If we could tinker with our brains coudn't we make the opposite set of features look pleasant to us?

 

1)This depends on self-confidence. If you believe you are ugly you will see an ugly person in the mirror regardless of how others perceive you.

2)True. Everyone has their own definition of beauty, but if we love a person for their positive qualities then we could probably regard them as attractive even if it opposes our original definition.

 

This is perception and philosophy

megavan
1. Is it true that we all look (our facial looks) good to ourselves irrespective of how we look to others in general?

what planet are you from?
Narcissia?

Take this line of thread to psychedelics.

Occam

 

We do have an innate tendency to see faces even when a face isn't there, as demonstrated perhaps by the hollow face illusion. Not the same, but if we have an inbuilt mechanism to attempt resolution of faces, we may have some other stuff built into that as well.

 

If we don’t want to define ourselves by things as superficial as our appearances, we’re stuck with the revolting alternative of being judged by our actions.

 

LOL. We are going to judge ourselves no matter how invisible we might be to others. Well if we don't trust ourselves we will and if thats the case then said person probably does think they are ugly.

 

1. No, it is a matter of self confidence.

2. Yes. Physical beauty in humans (as with all animals) is actually a tangible, non-subjective trait and directly reflects the person's fertility and resistance to disease(i.e genetic quality). People who are attractive generally are more intelligent, have more effective immune systems, and live longer.

 

I have seen a lot of humans with many babies and not look at all healthy or "attractive"

 

for years, the standard of beauty was the in-bred European aristocracy, not exactly the most intelligent, healthy, and disease resistant strata of society.

 

The tendancy for someone to find tehmselves attractive overall is greater than for someone to find a random unrelated person to be attractive. this tendancy probably involves the fact that we like familiar features, and we are most familiar with our own face in a mirror.

As for your second question, yes, ugly things can become atractive and attractive things can become ugly. It is not like there is an objective quality out there that instills beauty in its subjects. That is what the ancient greeks toyed with, and they were wrong. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and every beholder is different.

 

although inbreds might have been considered 'better' catches, or more valuable, sort of like how a virgin is more desirable in such social systems, the actual attractiveness of people's faces was not greater for inbreds.

neigh, attractive people are generally smarter, fitter, and more well off because of the reason they are attractive in the first place - they possess good genes.