Planet Qualia

We have to recognize civilization for what it is…and it is not beautiful. The human landscape lies on the other end of the aesthetic spectrum from beauty: it is sublime. It is full of decay and death while we imagine it is full of growth and life. Ecosystems are beautifulContinue Reading

So there’s that fundamental difference between landscapes and ecosystems.  Of course, we’re always at the center of our own landscape. And even when we’re out walking in the woods, as a rule, we are still at the center of our landscape. We may be scared of bears, like this isContinue Reading

God is the most qualiadelic idea in the book. If all qualia suggests ideals (the idea of a blackberry is idealistic so that it leads us to seek out the perfectly ripe blackberry) then we seek god – but what god? A manmade, distant though personal god defined by menContinue Reading