Star-Spangled Qualia
There is a passage in Plato, when Crito is trying to convince Socrates to flee Athens, when suddenly the Laws of State become personified and argue why Socrates ought to stay and suffer his sentence of death. The Laws of State argue simply and truly that were he to flee,Continue Reading
Who Are You?
Scientists have revealed that quarks and bosons and subatomic stuff are matter, popping in and out of existence. Sometimes they endure: as evidenced by some pattern that helps them exist for a bit. That pattern is qualia. Matter is manifested in patterns, patterns around which the matter forms; the patternsContinue Reading
From Where Do Landmarks Come?
Through ritual. A ritual is a framework we use instinctively. We ritual all the time. We notice new qualia when it appears, and we play with it. If it is good, we get the dopamine squirts we like, and we keep on ritualing with it. After a while new qualiaContinue Reading