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The Qualia |
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| 1. What is qualia? |
Qualia are everything what life feels. Not only human, but all kinds of life feel qualia and use for living. In another word, qualia are everything which life resonates.Qualia are everything which our life feels. We share same qualia, because qualia are imprinted in the genome. Our human kind use language for thinking. Language is connected with qualia in the unconsciousness, and conscious thinking use language as a label of qualia. Though we donft notice about the unconscious process about qualia, we can understand the qualia of red which the others feel, too. Red has specific qualia of red. There are so many gradations of qualia of red. Red of apple, red of sunset, red of fire has each specific qualia. They are imprinted in our genome, then we can share the delicate difference of qualia of red. Also the gravity, light, sound, taste, bodily sensation, feeling; everything has its own qualia. Who feel Qualia?Not only human, but all kinds of creatures feel qualia. Animals, Plants, amebas, bacteria feel qualia and use them for living. When the origin life was born on the planet four billions years ago, from the first moment life felt qualia and used them for surviving. There were so many materials and energy around origin life. When life met a specific material or energy, for example sun shine, wind, sound, oxygen, hydrogen, water; they effected a specific change in the cell. Life had to resonate with everything. If a stimulus was passing through life, some change was remained in the cell. This is the origin of qualia. Life resonates with everything of environment, all resonances between life and environment are qulaia. Life and qualia are born at the same time. Only life can feel qualia and can use them. This is the difference between qualia and information. Information can be used by machine like as computer. But machine can neither feel qualia, nor use them. This is the biggest characteristic of life and qualia. We cannot separate life and qualia. Inner
qualia and outer qualia
There are two kinds of qualia, one is outer qualia which cells receive at present time through resonance with environment, and another one is inner qualia which are reserved as memories and learning. Life can reserve the qualia which life felt once in the cell as a subtle change of cell. These reserved qualia are inner qualia. And present qualia which life feels right now are piter qualia. We have both types of qualia. Inner qualia and outer qualia resonate together always and take the most proper response. When life experienced many time of same stimulus from a material or energy, these subtle change become inner qualia and imprinted inside of life, like as deep memories. When life met similar stimulus next time, life could manage better behavior against the stimulus than before. Then life could survive for four billions years by using qualia. Without using qualia, life must not be able to survive. Both qualia of inner qualia and outer qualia are resonating at every moment in our brain, though it is unconscious.
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