Equilibrium
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
The Inner Landscape Pushes Back
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
No Regrets
Change, as a rule, is not pleasant. People don’t like it. Having to think about what we have learned to do mindlessly is annoying, like a detour on the road. Of course, after the fact, we are always grateful because change has brought us back to life. This explains whyContinue Reading