Qualia, Quanta, and Quest
Connecting the Body, Mind, and Heart in a Co-Creative Process of Consciousness
October 21, 2023
A bi-weekly conversation in Zoom, every second Saturday at 8am Pacific Time, inspired by the world building session with Trimtab Space Camp Mesosphere visionary Tony Patrick in 2020. In our conversations, we mused that we were a World Weavers Web, weaving synergetically as a synarchy, rather than in the dominant mode of dominating over nature as architects and builders, and collectively agreed to change the name of the group to World Weavers.
This week, the Design Science Studio embarked on a quest to integrate a third coheART of members into the community of (r)Evolutionaries, Evolutionaries, Visionaries, and pARTners. Part of that process of integration involves the co-creation of a new regenerative culture by participating in the formation of a shared language. In the social body of the community, there is communication happening between the parts to create the whole of the culture.
Quest
In the quest to find a shared language, I have been in a year-long process to map our collective journey on the Earth, along with the Moon, around the Sun. The relationships between these celestial bodies are held together through gravity. These relationships are the physical metaphor—the quanta—for the metaphysical qualities of the experience of life—the qualia.
The mind makes sense of the qualia of experience by connecting ideas, words, and language to the things or beings in reality that they point to. We share words as a way to communicate the inner sense of experience with those of others, because we are not able to access the experience of others directly. We create a shared language for what it means to be alive.
In the quest to find a shared language, we often encounter differences that cannot be easily accommodated with what feels familiar—that is, part of the same family. Conflicts arise over differences in language and culture—differences of deeply held traditions, beliefs, and notions of belonging, especially to territory and land.
In my quest to find a shared language, I start with what I know and work out from there. What if we started with the whole, with Universe. I began with my notion of time. I began with our understanding of a year, of months, and of days. I was on a quest to find a shared language that could help me become more sensitive to the relationships of gravity that create our sense of time.
Ubuntu
Without you, I do not exist.
Time, Energy, Matter
Time does not exist without objects in motion. Energy does not exist without matter changing in relationship to time. Matter does not exist without the transformation of energy into various forms over time. These elements are inseparable and must be experienced as a whole. These three make possible the experience of being alive.
Consciousness
“Matter is derivative of consciousness.”
“What is behind the void?”
We are on a quest to find a way to understand a life-centered way of life. This is the quest of our time. A fractal understanding of time recognizes the life that grows out from a center in waves, creating similar patterns at various scales of time, energy, and matter.
Weaving Worlds
Through the shared breath of life, we are weaving our worlds together. Let’s share a conversation about co-creating a shared language together.
A Bi-Weekly Zoom Meeting
Join us in our World Weavers conversations as we explore the inward journey into who we are as human beings and sensing, feeling, thinking, and acting carefully as we consider the world that we are weaving together for the generations to come.
We are experimenting with Substack as an alternative to the Google Group as a way to stay connected in between World Weavers meetings. Add your email to the mailing list for the World Weavers by subscribing to Trimtab.