Qualiens is my pen name. If we were all more qualiadelic we could be a new species: Homo qualiens. Not that I consider myself to be so evolved; I'm just happy to have received so many qualiadelic ideas. I think we will be seeing some really qualiadelic people come along. Soon.
My real name is Tony Brussat. I have an app called "BeQualiadelic"
There is always qualia available, ready to reveal itself to us, when we need it. It may be hidden by our usual landmarks and pathways, by the habit of not having had to seek it. It may be beyond our immediate landscape, in someone else’s landscape, and we must journeyContinue Reading
Anybody who has ever played around with an idea knows how one’s sense for that idea evolves over time. In addition, the idea itself evolves over time, too. Furthermore, the landscape of the brain, the neurolandscape, evolves as well. In just the same way, as our animal ancestors in theContinue Reading
Ernst Cassirer gave the name momentary gods to the things that fortuitously come to our rescue. He mentions a man during a time of drought who discovers a hidden spring, and for some time after this, his tribal family respects that spring as if it were a deity – aContinue Reading
Ideals arise from our interpretation of what our senses send us from the outer landscape. We taste a blackberry off the vine – how close is it to perfectly ripe? Ideals are self-consuming artifacts: eventually, we let go of them. Ideals are no longer necessary once their purpose is achieved. TheyContinue Reading
When two strangers meet, their consciousness connects through qualia. They see each other. Sounds pass back and forth. Certainly, they judge each other, but good people (and all people have goodness in them), are searching for something they hold in common, some shared qualia. (Even a name – “that wasContinue Reading