There are higher levels of scientists ā€“ namely, mathematicians and theorists ā€“ who have extraordinary ability at holding qualia in their minds while resisting the impulse to chase matter. I would argue that, of the two (mathematicians and theorists), the theorist is the superior, and this by way of AlbertContinue Reading

All those eons of evolution tuned us in to the qualia on the surface of things, but the qualia in the mind (which we only began to notice, oh, maybe fifty-thousand years ago at the most), gave us something new: imagination. Imagination revealed to us how all matter forms itselfContinue Reading

For millennia after millennia, the consciousness of plants, animals, and people was determined solely by qualia on surface of things. But it is the qualia within things which makes them greater than the sum of their parts. Green leaves, acorns, bark, roots make up a tree; but tree-ness is somethingContinue Reading

Evolution and civilization have separated us from the Tao. In order to get back to the Tao we must separate from evolution and civilization, stepping out of them as if we were stepping out of a stream ā€“ a stream of time, and evolution, and history. Impossible as this mayContinue Reading

Landscape intelligence is a measure of our ability to notice new qualia in the landscape when we need it. When our usual landmarks and pathways fall apart, when they fail to provide us with what we need, that is when we need to notice new qualia. A bird may noticeContinue Reading