Qualia is like Baby Bear’s bed, which was neither too soft nor too hard in the story of Goldilocks, but “just right.” Matter is too soft or too hard. Reality, too, as it is commonly sensed, is too soft or too hard. That is, reality as it is perceived byContinue Reading

The easy way to discover happiness, and incidentally to stop global warming in its tracks, is to focus on ecosystems. We are always at the center of our landscapes, but we are never at the center of ecosystems. If you think of a distant God, you will get a distantContinue Reading

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. There are only two things in the universe: qualia and matter.  Qualia holds matter together. Subatomic particles pop into existence and they latch onto qualia – but most of the time they don’t endure but they pop back out of existence. Continue Reading