All societies have always believed that they were each the chosen people and that the universe was created for them; in reality, none of us has been chosen, but we are all in a race to create the universe. Color, texture, taste, sound, solidity, and even ideas like dimension, motion and time only exist because we have evolved to perceive them. So, while the molecules that form objects and things are always there, the qualities by which our senses perceive them -- their qualia -- can definitely be changed. A rock isn't necessarily solid, the landscape is not necessarily what it seems, and...

MATTER, QUALIA, MIND AND COSMOS places both science and religion on the sidelines to cheer on the qualiadelic explanation of consciousness. Qualia has been an elephant in the room for 2500 years. The philosophers always notice it but they can never quite explain it away. Now, in an imaginitive and logical description of the relationship between qualia and matter, consciousness has been explained in a way that makes its appearance inevitable. Beginning with the big bang itself, MATTER, QUALIA, MIND AND COSMOS reveals how qualia and matter have interacted to produce all we know from the...