The following article presents a unique metaphor for consciousness. Its intent is practical: this model is meant to be compatible and adaptable to any other system of meditation. This was written to be as agnostic and un-opinionated as possible, but wherever I failed, it’s entirely your right as the Reader to choose what to pick up, and what to drop.

Basic Definitions

This section will define a few terms so that we can be on the same page.

consciousness : the state of experiencing, or being aware of something; Synonyms: awareness

attention : the mental faculty of taking notice of something

phenomenon : the object of a person's perception; what the senses or the mind notice; Synonyms: qualia, experience, perception; e.g. sights, sounds, tastes, smells, touch, thoughts, feelings, etc.

noumenon : a thing as it is in itself, as distinct from a phenomenon as it is knowable by the senses; Synonyms: "the world beyond the senses"; e.g. a bird, a chair, a song, a mathematical formula

intention : the faculty or power of using one's will; Synonyms: volition

e.g. "When my attention took notice of a sudden noise (a noumenon), the phenomenon of a bird's chirping was experienced in consciousness."

The Metaphor of a Radio

This section will map the previous terminology to a metaphor of an imaginary radio. This Radio represents the mechanism behind consciousness. It has no physical correlate or location.

Picture of an Old Radio

Consciousness is the music the Radio plays, which can take the form of any kind of phenomena.

Attention is the radio's Antenna, which is sensitive and receptive. It can "tune in" to, or "tune out" any signal/frequency.

Picture of an Antenna

Noumena, or "the world beyond the senses", correspond to these Radio Frequencies.

The Radio is controlled solely by an onboard computer A.I. (which stands for "Artificial Intentions"). This A.I. fine-tunes seven Dials on the Radio which adjust what the Antenna picks up.

Remember that this Radio is completely imaginary. It's just a metaphor, not to be taken literally. Actually, it serves as a mnemonic

If you over produce information while awake you enter a false dream that tries to convert the data your supposed to produce while asleep but through your opened eyes while awake.

This can cause you to enter unusual states of behavior while you try to find states of scenery associated with the delusion to pass the inverted backwards memory through the usual perception of daily life.

My occupational therapist when I mentioned this to her suggested letting it pass on its own, but my dispute is that it still must enter the perception through a fitting matched perception or it somehow fails to be converted.

So what I will try doing next time I have one these issues like this week, I'll build a pattern pareidolia display of information associated with the difficulty and pass that pareidolia uncertainty space through the percieved patterns and perhaps interact.

This should allow me to convert it from my own perception space infront of me like a waking dream but in a state static pareidolia associated image that can fit the percieved delusion through that qualia data without inhibing my sane state normal.

But I'll let you know how that goes.

Because my over production of information can induce a psychosis for overfilling short term memory, which is forced through the process of conversion to long term by being too much continuing, this corrupts the data unless you either close your eyes and go through it eyes shut completely, or you go through it infront of yourself on a computer like I suggest here.

If not you have to go through the normal psychosis in waking reality that causes a disturbance of others because they are not acting inside the delusion of lusions produced by the state of your conversion, its just that you have to observe the whole thing or you fail to be able to use your normal short term memory to properly function.

With the internet age its also more common to enter that state because of how much information is online and I started having this issue roughly when observing the totality of data on it presently. But this hypothesis I just had plus confirmed comparison suggests the method I described might allow a useful dream portal into other linearities.

If only I could find the maxime of over processing to control the state of transferences.

SOMETIME IN THE twenty-first century, science will confront one of its last great mysteries: the nature of the self. That lump of flesh in your cranial vault not only generates an “objective” account of the outside world but also directly experiences an internal world—a rich mental life of sensations, meanings, and feelings. Most many mysteries—is hardly a new pursuit. This area of study has traditionally been the preserve of philosophers, and it is fair to say that on the whole they haven’t made a lot of progress (though not for want of effort; they have been at it for two thousand years). Nonetheless, philosophy has been extremely useful in maintaining semantic hygiene and emphasizing the need for clarity in terminology. 2 For example, people often use the word “consciousness” loosely to refer to two different things. One is qualia—the immediate experiential qualities of sensation, such as the redness of red or the pungency of curry—and the second is the self who experiences these sensations. Qualia are vexing to philosophers and scientists alike because even though they are palpably real and seem to lie at the very core of mental experience, physical and computational theories about brain function are utterly silent on the question of howthey might arise or why they might exist. Let me illustrate the problem with a thought experiment. Imagine an intellectually highly advanced but color-blind Martian scientist who sets out to understand what humans mean when they talk about color. With his Star Trek –level technology he studies your brain and completely figures out down to every last detail what happens when you have mental experiences involving the color red. At the end of his study, he can account for every physicochemical and neurocomputational event that occurs when you see red, think of red, or say “red.” Now ask yourself: Does this account encompass everything there is to the ability to see and think about redness? Can the color-blind Martian now rest assured that he understands your alien mode of visual experience even though his brain is not wired to respond to that particular wavelength of electromagnetic radiation? Most people would say no. Most would say that no matter how detailed and accurate this outside-objective description of color (“Quale,” pronounced “kwah-lee,” is the singular form of “qualia.”) Indeed, there is no way you can convey the ineffable quality of redness to someone else short of hooking up your brain directly to that perso

I'm interesting in bridging critical theory with "analytic philosophy" because I've been involved in some interesting discussions with people trained in the analytic tradition where it feels like we're getting at similar things but coming from very different bases.

Does anyone know any work for example that attempts to consider "qualia" in terms of affect theory, or vice versa?

Analytic folks also sometimes talked about "Ontic Structural Realism" which appears superficially similar to Karen Barad-esque posthumanism (glossing: there are no objects, everything is relations), but I'm sure there are many differences. Has anyone written about a possible connection between these?

Edit to title: "What are those ingredients USED FOR? Title is literally everything. I cannot find the answer ANYWHERE. Thanks in advance.

I would like your guys’ take on this. So qualia is “the internal and subjective component of sense perceptions, arising from stimulation of the senses by phenomena” by definition.

Now I firmly believe that it is clearly not the neurons themselves or whatever part of the brain that causes certain qualia.

The qualia is of a completely different substance than a neuron by any type of examination. The only examination of qualia can be analyzing your own experience because that is literally what qualia is. This experience of, say staring at a yellow dog, is clearly different than what a neuron/grouping of neurons/the whole brain is or is measured as in any physical way. Correct?

Scientific evidence shows that neurons in some way or another are clearly responsible for generating this qualia. But it is still not the qualia correct? They can’t be the same thing upon examination. Even though the neurons clearly generate or create the qualia.

What are the philosophies behind where qualia exist? Is it a property of the physical brain itself in some way? Perhaps the electrochemical energy or ion flow have the building blocks of qualia as a fundamental property? Or neurons that fire in the brain each respectively have this property somehow?

If it’s not a property of the brain’s most basic flowing particles or ion flow or neurons, does this suggest it exists in a virtual space separate from the physical space of the world (mapped from the neurons to this space somehow)?

Thank you for all your responses!

Could it not be the case that there are no qualia at all, but rather just mental associations that we have (whether through operant conditioning or ingrained within us for evolutionary purposes) that create an illusion of qualia? (Ie, there is no “redness” to the color red, simply activations in cortical areas such as say, the amygdala, due to associations with blood, meat, etc which are reflective within our minds?

Hey guys, I guess most of you are probably familiar with the Qualia Research Institute, but if you are not, I definitely recommend you do check them out. They do incredible work in applying rigorous methods of mathematics, geometry and more to the qualitative psychedelic experience. This is a very unique and new approach to psychedelics and is refreshingly hard-nosed and non-reductive. They also do work on effective altruism and ethics, so if you are interested in what we do, you will love them!

https://www.qualiaresearchinstitute.org/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loCBvaj4eSg&t=1812s

Remember when movies smelled like gasoline? And the sunlight turned to sawdust on the carpet? There were forests in the blackbirds' eyes. We were drawn through the thorns then. We were naked by the time we got there. Our skin was cut. We gave our blood to some river. We gave our mouths to honey. Graves were covered over in bees. The needle came from the sun. It sat on the earth in the place that had been set aside. We said yes. Later the storms came. The girls with ice cream on their pink motorbikes. “Give us the highway,” they said. “Give us the hazy distance. Tonight we ride to the nests of the harvestmen, and you shall see us no more.” The boys went south carrying their pinatas. To the halitosis of seashells, it is said. To the elevators made of bones, it is said. They said none would ever know. And that was that.

I have this big guy just sitting in a closet, since my first born arrived and covid hit, priorities changed, and i never created the theater i wanted. 784 hours on bulb. great condition. no remote, i just used the flip down built in controller buttons to verify everything works great. such a cool piece, and still has a phenomenal picture. Had it up on ebay for way lower than anyone else, but not too many people even know what this is. They were introduced for around $30k, but i would let this go for 99% off if anyone wants it. ($300, or will trade for something cool) would need to pickup in Fairfield county, CT area, as this is too big to ship. let me know if you have any interest. please let me know if this post is not allowed.

Note: this has nothing to do with why I personally and reluctantly left atheism. Also this kindof a brain dump and is a little rusty. Open to critique.

Ive been thinking a lot about a mystery. Curious everyones thoughts.

Assuming evolution, conscious qualia existed before any organism developed the ability to experience it. The qualia of the scent of a rose preexisted any neurons, noses, or roses.

This means the qualia of the scent of a rose was “discovered” at some point in evolution.

But if the qualia of a scent of a rose existed before anyone was able to smell it, then consciousness itself was latent before any life appeared. But this also means there could be a vast collection of qualia we also have not yet discovered.

But more importantly, if consciousness is our “greatest” leap as a living animal kingdom, we just evolved into experiencing a preexisting realm.

Now, and this is the kicker for me. When our cells began to sense light, they were responding to a thing in a medium. Our conscious qualia then are probably existing in a separate medium as well (e.g. synesthesia is a good example of it being a medium of sorts) Or even stranger, our brains might be emitting qualia into a separate medium, or dimension, where they are converging into our experience. Like our brains our emitting something like qualia-photons into an observer - us.

Sensing light is the ability to respond to light. Seeing light requires no light at all (e.g. dreams). So our brains could obviously go haywire emitting all sorts of weirdness into this... dimension.

Since the qualia of consciousness can exist without any verifiable external phenomena in the physical world, it implies that consciousness is something other than just a response to our environment. It is a thing in a preexisting medium that our brains put “data” into.

And this implies consciousness, and all of the associated qualia, are completely decouplable from the physical world. It might be quite possible to emit qualia into our experience without it coming from our brain.

If NDEs are any example, we seem to have good evidence this is the case.

But it also implies our brains are actually creating a filter for our consciousness. And if our minds are a filter, then who knows what types of qualia are actually possible.

Human behavior seems to indicate that we see conscious qualia as a life form in and of itself. Consider how much people try to get increasingly more radical experiences in life. The goal is to at

No one, no genetic process, hard coded brains to produce these words, presumably. So what does it mean that brains that evolved language areas, after however long produced words for this? I'm trying to phrase this objectively. How can a neural network perceive qualia? (as opposed to being qualia or something). Whether monist or dualist. Is this evidence for and against any particular philosophies of consciousness?

I mean, romantic love. I have been watching a video about the three phases of love, but the explanation was too heteronormative as well and the Op refused to explain how it worked for gay people. According to them, love is linking to sexual attraction and reproduction (always, so good bye romantic aces and gay people) and although I understood the chemical reactions inside the brain and the comparison of love to a drug...

What if the concept of love is a totally different thing? Like a personal and subjective interpretation? Like qualia?

For example, we can understand how light works. Wavelengths and all that. But the concept of the color red, each people thinks of a different red hue when you talk about it and you can't fully explain it unless you experience it yourself.

Color blind people just sees different interpretations of the colors and blind people literally can't see any color. No matter how many times you explain it scientifically, they can't experience it so they can't fully understand it. There is a communication barrier.

What if aromantic people is the same but with romantic love? We can scientifically understand it, but somehow we can't perceive it or maybe we are immune to its effects/chemistry, like having a ''tolerance'' or resistance (like when people are drug resistant). Of course, we don't know right now what ''produces'' it or even if it needs a fix, because it doesn't cause us any inconvenience (unless society labels it as a mental disorder wrongly like they did with homosexuality back then, ew).

Sorry for the long post, but I had to say it.

The existence of qualia seems like the most certain thing in the world. Even if the laptop I am seeing right now did not actually exist, it is nonetheless true that it seems to me, phenomenally, that there is a laptop in front of me. Even if solipsism were true, I myself would have qualia; it is just that no one else would.

But, if I am right, there are theories of mind such as behaviourism and eliminative materialism which deny the existence of qualia altogether. I do not understand how anyone could sensibly deny the existence of qualia.

I know that there is no answer to this, but I think it raises some interesting philosophical ideas.

A sleepwalking person can engage in many behaviors, responding to their environment, and at times, can even be perceived as awake by other people. Some might actually store memories of their actions, yet most will have a) amnesia, or b) never really stored memories at all.

So the question then enters: Is the sleepwalker experiencing qualia (subjective experience) during this time?

Of course, they will be experiencing sense data if they are dreaming, but they are also engaging with their environment, so they are taking in external sense data. Still though, in most cases, the sleeper has no memory of this experience or engaging with it.

I think a sleepwalking person could be an interesting example of a person experiencing qualia without self-awareness, personality, or other functions that we associate with the "self". I haven't thought this through entirely, but I feel like the answer to this question would have really interesting implications to views of conciousness.

So what are your thoughts? And is there any philosophical work tackling similar issues?

I had one pop into my mind a few days ago but I am not sure if it makes sense so I’ll ask you guys.

P1) Non physical things can’t exists in certain places.

P2) Qualia (take pain for example) exists in certain places.

C) Qualia is not non physical.

Is this argument sound? Are there any philosophers who defend arguments like these?

The following article presents a unique metaphor for consciousness. Its intent is practical: this model is meant to be compatible and adaptable to any other system of meditation. This was written to be as agnostic and un-opinionated as possible, but wherever I failed, it’s entirely your right as the Reader to choose what to pick up, and what to drop.

This was crossposted from the original article on r/ConsciousnessRadio.

Basic Definitions

This section will define a few terms so that we can be on the same page.

consciousness : the state of experiencing, or being aware of something; Synonyms: awareness

attention : the mental faculty of taking notice of something

phenomenon : the object of a person's perception; what the senses or the mind notice; Synonyms: qualia, experience, perception; e.g. sights, sounds, tastes, smells, touch, thoughts, feelings, etc.

noumenon : a thing as it is in itself, as distinct from a phenomenon as it is knowable by the senses; Synonyms: "the world beyond the senses"; e.g. a bird, a chair, a song, a mathematical formula

intention : the faculty or power of using one's will; Synonyms: volition

e.g. "When my attention took notice of a sudden noise (a noumenon), the phenomenon of a bird's chirping was experienced in consciousness."

The Metaphor of a Radio

This section will map the previous terminology to a metaphor of an imaginary radio. This Radio represents the mechanism behind consciousness. It has no physical correlate or location.

Picture of an Old Radio

Consciousness is the music the Radio plays, which can take the form of any kind of phenomena.

Attention is the radio's Antenna, which is sensitive and receptive. It can "tune in" to, or "tune out" any signal/frequency.

Picture of an Antenna

Noumena, or "the world beyond the senses", correspond to these Radio Frequencies.

The Radio is controlled solely by an onboard computer A.I. (which stands for "Artificial Intentions"). This A.I. fine-tunes seven Dials on the Radio which adj

The following article presents a unique metaphor for consciousness. Its intent is practical: this model is meant to be compatible and adaptable to any other system of meditation. This was written to be as agnostic and un-opinionated as possible, but wherever I failed, it’s entirely your right as the Reader to choose what to pick up, and what to drop.

This was crossposted from r/ConsciousnessRadio.

Basic Definitions

This section will define a few terms so that we can be on the same page.

consciousness : the state of experiencing, or being aware of something; Synonyms: awareness

attention : the mental faculty of taking notice of something

phenomenon : the object of a person's perception; what the senses or the mind notice; Synonyms: qualia, experience, perception; e.g. sights, sounds, tastes, smells, touch, thoughts, feelings, etc.

noumenon : a thing as it is in itself, as distinct from a phenomenon as it is knowable by the senses; Synonyms: "the world beyond the senses"; e.g. a bird, a chair, a song, a mathematical formula

intention : the faculty or power of using one's will; Synonyms: volition

e.g. "When my attention took notice of a sudden noise (a noumenon), the phenomenon of a bird's chirping was experienced in consciousness."

The Metaphor of a Radio

This section will map the previous terminology to a metaphor of an imaginary radio. This Radio represents the mechanism behind consciousness. It has no physical correlate or location.

Consciousness is the music the Radio plays, which can take the form of any kind of phenomena.

Attention is the radio's Antenna, which is sensitive and receptive. It can "tune in" to, or "tune out" any signal/frequency.

Noumena, or "the world beyond the senses", correspond to these Radio Frequencies.

The Radio is controlled solely by an onboard computer A.I. (which stands for "Artificial Intentions"). This A.I. fine-tunes seven Dials on the Radio which adjust what the Antenna picks up.

Remember that this Radio is completely imaginary. It's just a metaphor, not to be taken literally. Actually, it serves as a mnemonic device to gather together several abstract concepts, so that they can be more easily remembered and applied in meditation.

Exercise: Attention: "Tune In" to the Room

Take a moment to just notice the room you are in. This experience of the room will consist of several "bandwidths" of Frequencies: the light in the