Planet Qualia

All sensitivity bears the stamp of mentation — Susanne K. Langer (1895 – 1985) Our eyes, our ears, our fingertips detect qualia. Every cell and every organ detects qualia and moves accordingly. Our very genes turn on and off because they sense qualia in the environment around them. Even theContinue Reading

When asked recently during an ice breaker what motivates me, I responded (perhaps selfishly, certainly self-consciously), that “I motivate me.” Others said things like providing protection for family, or the support of friends, travel, food, sex etc., but I was thinking of my interpretation of all the stimuli – theContinue Reading