Planet Qualia

A curious question which bears asking is what happens to the complex of qualia we call self after we die?  If qualia is another life form, not a carbon-based life form, but a different sort, then it’s to its advantage to keep this complex that we call the self aliveContinue Reading

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.