To express ourselves well, we must notice what it is we are sensing carefully. We express what catches our attention – but we express that all too carelessly. It is qualia that catches our attention but we often describe mere matter. As Samuel Johnson said, “It is more from carelessnessContinue Reading

The brain, just like the body and the rest of the outer landscape, evolved to perceive, just like the rest of the senses, the qualia that clothes the world. The brain’s world, however, is not the same world as the world of the five, outward-facing senses. The brain, like anyContinue Reading

When I think how Ecosystems are like God, having created life on earth, and provided for us all with such bounty; and that ecosystems reveal this bounty through the qualia which guide our senses; and to think that, in this guidance qualia is like the Holy Spirit, which teaches usContinue Reading