No, I really don't think so; beauty is at least as subjective as experience, itself, and therefore an objective measurement of it is not likely to be possible.
Since an objective definition is not possible, an objective definition that correlates personal experience with general understanding is also not possible.
This does not make "beauty" any less meaningful than any other experience, however; it is simply subjective in nature, not necessarily devoid of meaning.
In addition to the above, though, I will maintain that, as with any other subjective, emotional response, beauty, when experienced, will result in other measureable changes in the physical body. Those changes are not the experience of beauty, itself, but they are strongly and closely related to it. A person experiencing beauty will respond in a similar enough manner, each time, that the physiological changes resulting can be observed, measured, and even reliably predicted. |
