LWC Theory and Monastery

  Chapter 1 — Qualia, Pressure, and Hiddenness Sense the world. What are you sensing? Visual images? Sensations of touch, pressure, temperature, and the feeling of where your hands and feet are? These are common sensations, but they are not indivisible. Experience can be broken into smaller experiential units. We will call these units Qualia . You already use something similar in ordinary life. When you look at a digital image, you see many dots, pixels, or points of light arranged together into a larger picture. Qualia are like pixels of consciousness. Vision can be divided into smaller points of color and brightness. Touch can be divided into smaller points of pressure, texture, warmth, or pain. Perhaps you cannot directly sense atoms or particles themselves, but you can sense the Qualia produced through interaction with them. Qualia are not limited to the physical world alone. You can also experience them in dreams, memories, imagination, anticipation, and thought. These...