Living the Dream
If we aren’t paying attention to it, or if we don’t acknowledge what we’ve noticed, qualia will disappear as completely as the dreams we had last night. There is a dream state, in both waking and sleeping, where the achievement of lucidity allows us to hold on to the qualiaContinue Reading
Out of the Mouths of Babes
“It’s funny how some things make you think of other things.” Carole Lombard – “My Man Godfrey” Qualia makes you enjoy your own thoughts. Being qualiadelic is attractive.
The Myth of Progress
When scientists arrive at “new” truths, they build on what exists, and they bring useful things into the world that did not exist before. Such useful things, for all the good they do, unfortunately, don’t really do much to alleviate unhappiness (not to mention the misfortunes which all our newContinue Reading