{"id":5776,"date":"2026-09-09T18:46:01","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T01:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/planetqualia.com\/?p=5776"},"modified":"2026-09-09T18:46:01","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T01:46:01","slug":"5776","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetqualia.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/09\/5776\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Qualia is not metaphysical. As Voltaire pointed out, metaphysicists have been arguing for thousands of years about metaphysical properties, and they&#8217;ve never been able to convince one another of anything. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But all we have to do is look to ecosystems and evolution to see how qualia is presented to the senses of plants, animals, and humans. It is very convincing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Qualia is not metaphysical. As Voltaire pointed out, metaphysicists have been arguing for thousands of years about metaphysical properties, and they&#8217;ve never been able to convince one another of anything. But all we have to do is look to ecosystems and evolution to see how qualia is presented to the<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/planetqualia.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/09\/5776\/\">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-5776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s9QShd-5776","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetqualia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5776","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=5776"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/planetqualia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5789,"href":"https:\/\/planetqualia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5776\/revisions\/5789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetqualia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetqualia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetqualia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}