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"
If God is merely an idea, then He is qualia, and if He is manifest then he is extremely qualiadelic. To notice qualia, however, is not necessarily to have a religious epiphany, but it may be the tipping point for some sort of conversion experience. The rewards of noticing qualiaContinue Reading
There is a simple reason why qualia comes to our rescue when it does. Just think of it as living. It needs to survive. We know that the flower and the bees need each other to survive; we never think that maybe the colors, smells, tastes, textures, and sounds whichContinue Reading
When a tiny dust or pollen particle encounters water vapor high in Earth’s atmosphere, the water vapor coats and freezes it into a tiny crystal of ice. This tiny crystal is the “seed” from which a snowflake will grow. New qualia in the mind is like this seed. At someContinue Reading
As we are evolved from other animals, I think there is an innate need to notice little objects and to collect them – for food, sustenance, medicine, even status. But also, maybe like crows, we just like to hoard shiny little (useless?) baubles. The human ability to collect facts andContinue Reading
I had a thought as I was walking up the coastal shore here in southern Oregon. I saw a jellyfish in the sand, very beautiful, just a small guy like the size of a sand dollar, tanslucent, with a beautiful pattern within. And it occurred to me that, you know,Continue Reading