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.

“Don’t let the books go away!” – that’s what my bookshelf says to me. I can hear all the voices in the books on my shelf speaking to me. They were very interested in Planet Qualia, when I first started writing it, and every one of them had something toContinue Reading