All those eons of evolution tuned us in to the qualia on the surface of things, but the qualia in the mind (which we only began to notice, oh, maybe fifty-thousand years ago at the most), gave us something new: imagination. Imagination revealed to us how all matter forms itself around qualia. Qualia informs everything and makes everything greater than the sum of its parts. It is the qualia within things, not the qualia on the surface of things, which frees us from landscapes and connects our consciousness with ecosystems.
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