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All consciousness is local, in the strict sense of the frog, who does not know the greater cause of his sickness, but only that he is sick. Just so, every individual being, each unique consciousness, clings to its landmarks and pathways, unaware that its own, peculiar landscape is part ofContinue Reading

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When I was a kid my parents would take me to the symphony. I would try to listen. I liked to focus on the big double-bass. Soon, inevitably, I would catch myself thinking about my friends, or how uncomfortable the seat was, or the high, blue bouffant hairdo rising onContinue Reading

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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