Qualia always suggests ideals. We have an ideal of a ripe blackberry, but we won’t know until we taste it whether it is underripe or overripe or perfect. It’s the ideal. It’s our aesthetic sense of beauty and sublimity, which tells us whether a berry is moving towards ripeness orContinue Reading

Einstein’s spooky action at a distance – the question of how matter from distant areas can react simultaneously to the same qualia – is not unlike the way two people from either side of the world have the same reaction to the night sky.

Death, the ultimate in paying it forward. Every act of growth, and of creativity is an act of giving and dying. It invites new life, new qualia, new ideas, new love, new life, and new beings to co-exist.