Through this contribution I would like to outline a particular paradigm of aesthetic experience and carry out a first discussion on it. I will explain the basic reason for this proposal in par. 1, in which a paradox that, in my opinion, thrives in our present conception of the aesthetic is pointed out. In par. 2 I will provide the general coordinates of the paradigm at issue trying to highlight at least in principle the connection with the extended mind model, while in the following two paragraphs I will draw some consequences with regard to the categorial apparatus relating both to aesthetic theory (par. 3) and to the aesthetic field, that is, to the practice of the aesthetic (par. 4).