It’s obvious and I’ve probably said it a million times but the reason it’s so hard to put our faith in our inner qualia is because we’re addicted, by virtue of how we evolved, to the superficial qualia that always leads us to the matter we needed to survive. TheContinue Reading

The various functional systems of a tree ā€“ root system, veins, branches, leaves ā€“ do not know that they are part of a tree. They are aware only of the nearby elements of the same functional system; they notice qualia that has to do with moving nutrients or water around,Continue Reading

A tree manifests itself in the physical world as color and shape (qualia), and these are signs which, when combined, we perceive as a tree. In the mind, we conceive a different qualia: a symbol. We have a conception of a tree that manifests itself as something beautiful, or useful,Continue Reading