No matter where qualia comes to us from, once we are aware of it, it becomes part of our landscape. It becomes local. The consciousness of a plant or animal is always intimately tied to the landscape, for it is determined by the landscape. Landmarks in the landscape project qualia,Continue Reading

We often see qualia ā€“ more particularly, the relics of qualia ā€“ in the world around us. These are the leftover signs of what once held matter together. The checkerboard pattern of decaying wood in a rotting log, all that is left of the endurance of a mighty tree. AContinue Reading

When you look at a stream, it is pure. It merely does what a stream does. It has a source, somewhere, and it goes, as gravity directs, towards the sea. It creates its path. When we note how rocks and dirt, trees and animals, and most especially humans, divert aContinue Reading