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The Qualia Revolution
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The Qualia Revolution begins by recognising that the true starting point of science is not the 'objective' existence of a space-time universe but our subjective and qualitative experience of that universe. Yet not even the most sophisticated quantitative science can explain the most elementary qualities of our sensory experience - the experience of 'redness' for example.
'Qualia' used to be defined by philosophers simply as experiences 'sensory' qualities such as colour and sounds. Yet what if subjective awareness is no mere empty receptacle for the experience of such sensory qualities but has its own innately, inwardly sensed and sensual qualities - qualities such as the sensed colour and tone, lightness or darkness, levity or gravity, texture and density of moods, or those sensed qualities of inner 'warmth' or 'coolness' or 'distance' towards other human beings that we sense in ourselves and others?
Peter Wilberg argues that it is not material particles or energetic 'quanta' but 'qualia' in this sense - sensed and sensual qualities of awareness or 'soul' - that are the basic stuff of which both we and the universe are composed. Atoms, molecules and cells are seen as the outwardly perceived form taken by patterned qualities of atomic, molllecular and cellular awareness.
The Qualia Revolution begins by recognising that the true starting point of science is not the 'objective' existence of a space-time universe but our subjective and qualitative experience of that universe. Yet not even the most sophisticated quantitative science can explain the most elementary qualities of our sensory experience - the experience of 'redness' for example.
'Qualia' used to be defined by philosophers simply as experiences 'sensory' qualities such as colour and sounds. Yet what if subjective awareness is no mere empty receptacle for the experience of such sensory qualities but has its own innately, inwardly sensed and sensual qualities - qualities such as the sensed colour and tone, lightness or darkness, levity or gravity, texture and density of moods, or those sensed qualities of inner 'warmth' or 'coolness' or 'distance' towards other human beings that we sense in ourselves and others?
Peter Wilberg argues that it is not material particles or energetic 'quanta' but 'qualia' in this sense - sensed and sensual qualities of awareness or 'soul' - that are the basic stuff of which both we and the universe are composed. Atoms, molecules and cells are seen as the outwardly perceived form taken by patterned qualities of atomic, molllecular and cellular awareness.
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