Planet Qualia

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

The word Blockhead is yet on more proof of our innate sense that materialism is not optimal 

The ability to see color conferred a selective advantage in evolution, allowing animals to see possible food from further away.  A byproduct of that is our ability to see sunsets. But does the ability to see a sunset convey a selective advantage?  Well, yes. It allows us to realize thatContinue Reading