Planet Qualia

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

Obviously, routine needs to change sometimes. Indeed, traditions need to change sometimes. But traditions exist in history. So we don’t necessarily lose tradition. If we stop following one, it still stays in our cultural genes, just the way atavistic DNA does, to be resurrected when needed.  That is why weContinue Reading