We, like all animals, have evolved to react to qualia in the outer landscape, but at some time in the last fifty-thousand years we began to pay attention to new qualia – the qualia of our inner landscape. The interest we pay to the qualia within forms it into something with meaning – a landmark – but a landmark which leads us down pathways in the mind.
The inner landscape is a new adaptation, and it is full of flaws, especially when compared to the ancient survival machine of the body. Never the less, the inner landscape pushes back against the outer landscape, and creates the human landscapes with which we are all familiar.