What’s the matter?
This simple question, which we all use all the time, reveals not only our focus on matter but also the connection between matter and all our problems. If only we would ask “how’s the qualia” instead we would be so much farther along towards fixing ourselves, our communities, and theContinue Reading
Qualia Blossoms
There is some debate about which is more important, a flower’s seeds or its blossom. Seeds, of course, carry the flower’s DNA into the next generation, but the blossom is the flower in full potential. In a human, we are slaves to our own seed, our own DNA; but weContinue Reading
I couldn’t have said it better
Aeon https://aeon.co/essays/causal-understanding-is-not-a-point-of-view-its-a-point-of-do I am quoting the final paragraphs of this essay by Mariel Goddu without further comment. The first two-thirds of the article talks about cause and effect in the growing mind of children and animals. The descriptions of cause and effect nicely resemble ritualing, which animals do instinctually andContinue Reading