Bodily sensory experiences like smell, temperature, and proprioception involve interested, pragmatic engagements that resist elevation to genuine aesthetic experience in the Kantian sense.

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Disinterested (as in 'disinterested engagement')(the key feature Kant believed separated true aesthetic experience from ordinary sensory experiences): Paying attention to something purely for the pleasure of experiencing it, without any concern for whether it benefits you or serves a practical purpose.
Kant / Kantian sense(the philosophical standard being referenced for what counts as genuine aesthetic experience): Immanuel Kant was an 18th-century philosopher who argued that true aesthetic experiences happen when we appreciate something disinterestedly—meaning we enjoy it for its own beauty, not because it's useful to us.
Pragmatic(as used in philosophy of language and meaning): Focused on practical, real-world effects and usefulness rather than just abstract theory.
Proprioception(as used in neuroscience and philosophy of perception): Your body's sense of where its parts are in space and how they're moving, without you having to look—like knowing where your arm is even with your eyes closed.

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