Our relationships, like our economic systems, are material – they are a risky balance of giving and taking, buying and selling, extorting and cheating, where everything has its price. But the strongest, most lasting relationships, are based upon cooperation. Cooperation is qualiadelic. Qualiadelic relationships are not based upon shared matter,Continue Reading
Culture, despite its refinements, is all about pleasure. All the energy of the world seems to be spent, either on satisfying cravings, or creating new or better ones. As soon as our Participation Levels catch up, our Interest Levels go bounding off ahead. We are like a mountain goat whoContinue Reading
For millennia after millennia, the consciousness of plants, animals, and people was determined solely by qualia on surface of things. But it is the qualia within things which makes them greater than the sum of their parts. Green leaves, acorns, bark, roots make up a tree; but tree-ness is somethingContinue Reading