When I did that post on maths and beauty I forgot to put a chunk of the point I was making into it. However, as long as I don't mention it I think I can get away with it.
Anyway, as you'll remember from my previous post, beauty is directly connected to mathematics. However, human brains are not completely logical, not in anyway perfect at pattern recognition. There are too many other things that taint are perception. So the question is, can we ever truly experience perfect beauty? If it was purely based on mathematics then there should be a perfect formula that creates truly perfect music and art, akin to Plato's idea of forms. If this were the case there would be a finite amount of beauty an object could have and it could arguably be measurable how beautiful something is. But that's not the case, because we are not pure mathematical beings. The more important question perhaps is whether a truly logical being could experience beauty, because if not then it would be simply impossible for anything to experience perfect beauty.
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