Throughout evolution, qualia has come to animals, plants, and all beings, from the outside. Qualia has been the gift of ecosystem — the colors, sounds, smells, tastes and textures — which leads us to the matter we need for survival. We might say (and we shall) that consciousness was impressedContinue Reading

Consciousness renders the world fixed. Once fixed, evolution slowly moves the old landscapes into the background, where they always remain a force (though we may not be conscious of it – just as we are not terribly conscious of the stars from which we came, or even the mountains offContinue Reading

Sleep is to ecosystems as wakefulness is to landscapes. The former are qualiadelic while the latter are materialistic. Sleep is the Yin to wakefulness’ Yang.