Publications in the Domain of Qualia

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Profiles the intense sensory qualia of a personal ritual: 1970s Lisbon, the price of 25 tostões, godmother Lurdes, and the fragrance of the coffee grinder. It frames coffee as "embodied memory" where the palate is calibrated by lived experience, making authenticity a reproducible sensory protocol.

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Explores how climate and geography shape psychological qualia and disposition. It contrasts the sun-dependent, low-pressure environment of Portugal with the functional interiority and "hygge" of Northern Europe, showing how physical environments dictate the subjective experience of comfort and tension.

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Describes the situation of "deep looking" at a mundane object—a simple pebble—as a gateway to unlock the qualia of wonder, revealing the deep time, geology, and interconnectedness hidden in overlooked aspects of the world.

8981 words · 45 min read

Links language and culture to subjective experience, noting how different nations process reality differently, specifically highlighting "French qualia" alongside Portuguese contextual intelligence and English empiricism.

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Profiles the intergenerational qualia of love and mentorship through the author's grandmother, Maria Olívia (b.1896). It argues that high cognitive sovereignty is transmitted not by genetics, but through the embodied, face-to-face presence and structured attention of loved ones.

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Maps the subjective experience of love through the seven Greek forms (Eros to Xenia), arguing that lived, relational experience must be prioritized over abstract models, ultimately using Whitehead's process philosophy to restore the primacy of felt experience.

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Details the physiological situation of advanced Tibetan meditation, where the ultra-slow 0.1 Hz epsilon state and baroreflex loop align brain and heart to produce the subjective qualia of *ataraxia*—a state of simultaneous stillness and clarity.

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Profiles Dalí's "paranoiac-critical method" as a lawful protocol for visualizing the unconscious. It highlights situations where external stimuli generate oneiric (dream) narratives before waking, capturing the subjective qualia of desire, anxiety, and hallucination.

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Profiles Dalí's "paranoiac-critical method" as a lawful protocol for visualizing the unconscious. It highlights situations where external stimuli generate oneiric (dream) narratives before waking, capturing the subjective qualia of desire, anxiety, and hallucination.

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Explores Robert A. Heinlein's Martian concept of "grok"—a specific, profound subjective qualia meaning to deeply comprehend and unite with something, absorbing it into one's own lived experience.

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Grounds qualia in deterministic biophysics. It explains how "feel-good" subjective states arise from stable chemical scaffolds—specifically aromatic rings coupling with lipid membranes to synchronize neural oscillations, creating persistent subjective value and adaptive signaling.

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Grounds qualia in deterministic biophysics. It explains how "feel-good" subjective states arise from stable chemical scaffolds—specifically aromatic rings coupling with lipid membranes to synchronize neural oscillations, creating persistent subjective value and adaptive signaling.

3100 words · 16 min read

Integrates Federico Faggin's semantic consciousness and Stuart Hameroff's "qualia-driven complexity," positioning subjective, felt experience not as a byproduct, but as a core, thermodynamic driver of life.

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Defines qualia as "embodied feeling" that no statistical inference can simulate. It uses the raw, biological imperative of "having to pee" to mark the unbridgeable gap between human lived experience (qualia) and the static, syntactic state of a machine.

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Synthesizes Orch-OR as a deterministic, testable theory of consciousness where subjective experience arises from gravitationally induced wavefunction collapses within neuronal microtubules, treating qualia as a physical resonance phenomenon.

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Analyzes Philip K. Dick's work to contrast genuine human sensation/empathy (qualia) with the "powerful mimicry" of androids/AI, noting that simulation is fundamentally distinct from authentic felt experience.

3660 words · 18 min read

Examines how digital architectures dictate the "human experience" of technology, contrasting the open, flexible metabolism of Android with the closed, curated metabolism of iOS, showing how environments shape our digital qualia.

15645 words · 78 min read

Explicitly states that AI is merely a Turing machine for pattern matching "without consciousness," warning that using AI for behavioral regulation is a shameful abdication of the unique, qualia-rich human criterion.