What core concepts form the foundation of your way of looking at the world?
Core ideas underpinning my worldviews:
Qualia matter.
More than one thing can be true at a time.
@starkatt so, unfamiliar, I looked up 'qualia' after seeing some of your posts a day or two ago, and, I couldn't grasp the definition. If you wouldn't mind taking the time, would you be willing to try to define it for me, like, as you would for a child? Or is it just a philosophical concept inherently complex enough to be irreducible, or perhaps too reliant on prerequisite conceptual knowledge?
@kelly Okay. So suppose you're staring at a swatch of florescent red paint. It's bright and colorful.
The light entering your eyes has a certain intensity and wavelength distribution. It hits the back of your eye and starts a cascade of information in your brain.
But that doesn't describe what the color *feels* like. Aside from any emotional resonances, purely experiencing the color red as a conscious being is a unique sensation. The redness exists. That's qualia.
@kelly Expand this to every subjective experience.
