Michelle Hadden wrote:
>
> does this point to any necessary,
> inherently biological connection
> between pain and beauty?
>

Only in a trivial sense, I believe. Whatever we mean by beauty, it
implies a conscious relationship to the outside world, and pain of
course depends on the same relationship. But the connection, then, is
between beauty and consciousness -- tautologicvally true -- not between
beauty and pain.

Carrol