"Defining the relationship between technology and reason, and the more recent problem of the relationship between human faculties, computation, and the digital."

PLATO suggested that empirical objects depend on ideas for their intelligibility. His ideas, or Forms, are more stable and more real than the objects that depend on them.


In his MENTOR, ARISTOTLE'S aesthetic theory, the overarching concept was art is representational."

This means that art aims to depict something that already exists in nature. Therefore, art is modelled on nature in a similar way to how empirical objects are modelled on the preconceived notion of Forms.

Aesthesis:
an unelaborated elementary awareness of stimulation. synonyms: esthesis, sensation, sense datum, sense experience, sense impression.

DEFINITIONS

Nous:

From Greek Philosophy, of mind or intellect.

Philosophy. (in Neoplatonism) the first and purest emanation of the One, regarded as the self-contemplating order of the universe.

In philosophy, the faculty of intellectual apprehension and of intuitive thought. Used in a narrower sense, it is distinguished from discursive thought and applies to the apprehension of eternal intelligible substances and first principles.