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.

@starkatt so, it's a universal truth or situation (if not a constant) that stands as something that's 'real' regardless of subjective experiences of it by people? Like, is gravity qualia? ('a qualia?')

@kelly Kind of the opposite? It's a subjective experience that only exists within one mind, and cannot be described in purely physical terms.

@starkatt hmm. So, would it be like: a film editor chose to synchronize visuals with sound effects and music, but qualia is the fact that this can easily make me cry? A music video sequence is the 'objective' reality (thing that exists) and qualia is my subjective (but real to me) experience, the subjectivity making it no 'less real?'

@kelly Qualia is what that film making you cry _feels_ like to you, yeah.