Pigeons, Magnetic Fields, and AI
Let’s just say, for the sake of argument, that the reason a pigeon can navigate home from anywhere, even if he is prevented from “knowing” where he is, is because he is able to sense the magnetic fields which surround the Earth. Well, he didn’t just wake up one morningContinue Reading
Androcles
Perhaps all creatures, but surely whales, dolphins, humans and surely others (elephants? Chimpanzees) all once upon a time looked inward and saw the qualia in their own minds. It was the birth of higher consciousness. Qualia, the most well known of which are color, smell, sound, texture and taste, isContinue Reading
Stonehenge
Sometimes it seems as if virtually everything is qualiadelic. But in fact, most things are only potentially qualiadelic. A great example is Stonehenge, the ancient rock formation near the southern coast of England. Stonehenge is so massive, and so mysterious, that is has attracted people for thousands of years. ThisContinue Reading