how to understand qualia

Qualia

The concept of qualia is not a scientific concept in a constructed sense. It's just the semantic pointer to any entity's self-reported data type atomics ... which are completely dependent on the entity's ability to verbalise their own smallest analysable experience. 

For example say the smell of strawberries. John says I can't analyse it farther than that it is what it is, and that's all I know. Peter says it's exactly a combination of two other smells, tomatoes and lemons in a 3:2 ratio. Dirk says it's a one dimensional signal that might as well be a sound in my nose. 

These are all qualia, to the maximum practical definition of the term.

thought on the run

Knocked back another 21 clicks. It takes 2.5 hours with an injured MCL. Thirteen one-mile loops on the streets I ran on 34 years ago. That's a bit of time to think, about time, and about thinking.

I finish around 4 a.m. and stiffwalk my ass home, put a few days clothes in the washer, clean my shoes and watches, take a shower, move shoes to the dehydrator, work on some in-flight glue issues, then make a meal from canned mackerel, craft kimchi, and cold rice. I add more nigari to the kimchi tub, but upon reflection, a gram is not quite enough, so I add more.

The cheapest form of magnesium is a wet salt, which I need to counter hypercalcemia from yesterday's final calcitriol administration. The potent bioactive form of vitamin D was salvaged from the home of a cancer patient. Now I have run out and will start on ordinary D3. I need to adjust my kimchi recipe. After food I make a soda from sugar, citric acid, baking soda, and water with ice. Then I make a hot coffee. I hang the laundry. Now, what I was thinking about on the run :

As discussed recently with folks on Threads, and in review of that elsewhere, Malaysia continues to bore me. But that is an ordinary stance I have adopted for most of my life. There are many retarded issues here, too many to count, and I do not consider myself smart enough to move the needle painlessly. So I contribute what little I can to public speech. And then I focus on what I do best, which is minding my own development.

Thermo interoception

Thermoregulatory observations today :

1. Body temp increase, signals a transition from carb and fat, to protein burning.

2. End-of-waking phase autonomous transition signalled by reduced metabolism of : skeletal muscle, brown fat, liver. 

Very interesting day.