Planet Qualia

In our foundational documents, in the Declaration of Independence, changing one word would change everything! Just substitute the pursuit of contentment for the pursuit of happiness. 

Ecosystems aren’t really a thing, they are a description of a thing. Like a physical law, such as gravity, they describe phenomena we all experience.  Ecosystems describe the harmony and rebalancing that lets all of nature endure – life, death, growth and decay. Ecosystems, however, are about as far fromContinue Reading

Qualia is not metaphysical. As Voltaire pointed out, metaphysicists have been arguing for thousands of years about metaphysical properties, and they’ve never been able to convince one another of anything. But all we have to do is look to ecosystems and evolution to see how qualia is presented to theContinue Reading