An experiment is a ritual done consciously: it is a framework we construct to experience and observe something unknown. We don’t always find what we are looking for, but even when an experiment goes awry, we are rewarded with new information – new qualia and patterns to ignite wonder!
Qualia is like Baby Bear’s bed, which was neither too soft nor too hard in the story of Goldilocks, but “just right.” Matter is too soft or too hard. Reality, too, as it is commonly sensed, is too soft or too hard. That is, reality as it is perceived byContinue Reading
The easy way to discover happiness, and incidentally to stop global warming in its tracks, is to focus on ecosystems. We are always at the center of our landscapes, but we are never at the center of ecosystems. If you think of a distant God, you will get a distantContinue Reading