{"id":3749,"date":"2025-08-20T08:20:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T15:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/planetqualia.com\/?p=3749"},"modified":"2025-08-20T08:20:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T15:20:14","slug":"aesthetic-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetqualia.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/20\/aesthetic-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Aesthetic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"Textbody wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Words, ideas, feelings, with the progress of time harden into substances: things, bodies, actions, moulder away, or melt in to a sound, into thin air<\/em> \u2014 William Hazlitt (1778-1830)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"Textbody wp-block-paragraph\">We consciously ritual with what is abstract inside of us \u2014 words, feelings, ideas, intuitions \u2014 and they become manifest. The matter of our inner landscapes cling to qualia as all matter clings to qualia. That is the role of qualia, to help matter endure; and matter makes qualia knowable. We sense it and move toward it, as we would pursue any ideal, and the goal becomes more clear with every ritual, with every experiment, with every prayer, with every enterprise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"Textbody wp-block-paragraph\">Perfection, as we all know from hard experience, is unattainable. Alas, even the simple snowflake \u2014 molecules striving toward a hexagonal ideal \u2014 inevitably falls short. But there is beauty in this failure. From out of the group arises the individual, unique, a whole new life \u2014 a whole new universe!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"Textbody wp-block-paragraph\">But things, bodies, actions, moulder away\u2026lives and universes melt into thin air. Life and death and growth and decay\u2026matter and qualia, qualia and matter. It is quite as if this aesthetic seesaw between the beautiful and the sublime is the essence and source of consciousness. <a href=\"https:\/\/planetqualia.com\/index.php\/videos\/aesthetic\/\">That\u2019s all there is<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Words, ideas, feelings, with the progress of time harden into substances: things, bodies, actions, moulder away, or melt in to a sound, into thin air \u2014 William Hazlitt (1778-1830) We consciously ritual with what is abstract inside of us \u2014 words, feelings, ideas, intuitions \u2014 and they become manifest. The<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/planetqualia.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/20\/aesthetic-2\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["entry","author-qualiens","post-3749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9QShd-Yt","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetqualia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetqualia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetqualia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetqualia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetqualia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3749"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/planetqualia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4423,"href":"https:\/\/planetqualia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3749\/revisions\/4423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetqualia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetqualia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetqualia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}