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by pavedwalden 4159 days ago
Ted Chiang's story "Liking what you see" speculates about what it would be like if science messed with the other side of the equation. How would we relate to other people if we silenced the part or our brain that recognized physical beauty? (shadysite transcript of story: http://www.ibooksonline.com/88/Text/liking.html)