“If nothing exists, I want to know how the nothing works and why it seems to be so highly ordered.”
If qualia are explained by our innate intuitions (or beliefs)—propositional attitudes—then two questions follow about “how it works”:
What is the propositional content of the beliefs?
What evolutionary pressures caused their development?
I make some conjectures in another essay.
Qualia might be beliefs instead of qualia. Matter might be qualia instead of matter.
:. Beliefs might be Matter instead of Beliefs, or put more simply, beliefs may matter.
If qualia are explained by our innate intuitions (or beliefs)—propositional attitudes—then two questions follow about “how it works”:
What is the propositional content of the beliefs?
What evolutionary pressures caused their development?
I make some conjectures in another essay.
Qualia might be beliefs instead of qualia. Matter might be qualia instead of matter.
:. Beliefs might be Matter instead of Beliefs, or put more simply, beliefs may matter.