In the past, our minds were only reflections of the landscapes outside of us, but no longer. Now, our minds are reflections of ecosystems. The qualia which once flowed into the mind through our distorted, outward-facing senses, now flows into the mind directly from ecosystems, pure and refreshing like theContinue Reading

Animals are not often torn between this or that qualia, the way we humans are. Animals don’t have to choose which cereal to buy, which career to choose, or which candidate to vote for. Depending upon the time of day, the season, and many other factors, they usually know exactlyContinue Reading

We, like all animals, have evolved to react to qualia in the outer landscape, but at some time in the last fifty-thousand years we began to pay attention to new qualia – the qualia of our inner landscape. The interest we pay to the qualia within forms it into somethingContinue Reading