Is Taste personal or shared?

Taste may begin as personal experience. But if we view Taste as a system, then its measurable shape appears through the handshaking of signals between at least two cybernetic systems. It becomes understood through interaction among environment, phenomena, process, and observer.

Taste can therefore be understood as a shared dyadic process. It is not only a biological judgment about sensory experience, but also a feedback loop: a pattern-matching game in which people organize concepts into constructs, constructs into aesthetics, and aesthetics into observations that can be tested by another participant.

Let’s work from the bottom upward through a hypothetical lens for understanding Taste this way. The rules assume that Taste emerges through concepts, constructs, synthesized phenomena, motion in time, and recursive observation.

Concepts -> Constructs -> Aesthetic -> Observation

In this understanding, multiple concepts create a construct. Multiple constructs form an aesthetic topology. Multiple aesthetic topologies under recursive observation are refined to a discernment that aligns with the loop. Here’s an example of this process:

Generate Concepts:
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Concept 1: Wavy line
Concept 2: Parallelism
Concept 3: Dots

Synthesize Concepts:
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Concept 1 + Concept 2 = Construct 1: Ridges?
Concept 2 + Concept 3 = Construct 2: Grids?
Concept 1 + Concept 3 = Construct 3: Sand dunes?

How do we determine what is a construct versus a concept versus an aesthetic? I propose that these categories are negotiable based on personal bias and the position of the observer.

Signify Aesthetics:
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Construct 1 + Construct 2 = Ridges + Grids = L-Systems?
Construct 2 + Construct 3 = Grids + Sand dunes = Opposites?
Construct 1 + Construct 3 = Ridges + Sand dunes = Fluid lines?

Aesthetics are chosen by me as the author as my own bias, not reflective of others with the same constructs.

Generate Observation:
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Human-in-the-loop 1: Projects the aesthetic cluster of (L-Systems,
  Opposites, Fluid Lines) to Human-in-the-loop 2

Human-in-the-loop 2: Receives the aesthetic cluster of (L-Systems, Opposites,
  Fluid Lines) from Human-in-the-loop 1 and discerns which possibly related
  constructs connect to this group and as a result, which concepts.
  This results in taking the aesthetic cluster and feeding it back
  as concepts to re-run the loop before sending a new cluster back
  to Human-in-the loop 1.

By going back and forth in this conversational loop of re-framed aesthetic clusters, both participants have the ability to read what the other has constructed as a topological structure of aesthetic handshaking. When both can infer how the other is organizing concepts and constructs into aesthetic clusters, their feedback loop produces a temporary dyadic Taste alignment.