{"id":4877,"date":"2025-12-24T07:22:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T15:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/planetqualia.com\/?p=4877"},"modified":"2025-12-24T07:22:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T15:22:18","slug":"a-life-well-lived","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetqualia.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/24\/a-life-well-lived\/","title":{"rendered":"A Life Well Lived"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Little Dopamine is like qualia. It is a gift to notice it, for it leads us to what we need &#8211; to survive and to find contentment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Although we can hold qualia in the mind, and Little Dopamine in the body, we can\u2019t keep them there. One moment they look ideal or feel great, alive and beautiful, but then the next moment they seem imperfect, changed, sublime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Unlike matter and Big Dopamine, qualia and Little Dopamine are both exquisite in a much healthier way. That glimpse of the ideal and those pleasant sensations are not misleading &#8211; their subtle allure is the true measure of a life well lived.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Little Dopamine is like qualia. It is a gift to notice it, for it leads us to what we need &#8211; to survive and to find contentment. Although we can hold qualia in the mind, and Little Dopamine in the body, we can\u2019t keep them there. One moment they look<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/planetqualia.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/24\/a-life-well-lived\/\">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-4877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9QShd-1gF","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetqualia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4877","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=4877"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/planetqualia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4937,"href":"https:\/\/planetqualia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4877\/revisions\/4937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetqualia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetqualia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetqualia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}