Qualia in A to Z

It’s April of 2024 and Day 17 of the A to Z challenge. This year I am doing the theme of ‘26 Moments’ on my blog. I plan to pull out A to Z parts from diverse set which are more than just the parts and possibly describe the world of their own.  It can be a wonder, an invention, a community, the philosophy, a thought, a lead, a culture, a design, or basically anything that would make one wonder and ponder on.  26 imperfect petite flashes that are amongst and around us.

My everyday will have a selection, description, an eight line poem followed by an interpretation.

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Day 17: Qualia

Qualia is a Latin derived word which describes the subjective conscious know-hows. The word tries to understand the nature of consciousness we all have. The feelings and experiences like: having a headache, the redness in color red, running fingers over sandpaper, smelling the sea air etc. all have an experience of a mental state with a distinctive subjective character. Qualia refers to these kind of phenomenal aspects of our mental experiences. The word means ‘of what sort’ or ‘of what kind’ in relation to a specific instance. Like example: what does this specific mango fruit tastes like, if I eat now. Rather than what it is directly like to be experiencing the emphasis is on beliefs about experiences. There is something it is like for each of us to subjectively undergo that experience. I love the philosophical depth that this word brings.

The redness of red is a commonly used example to explain the quale.

Poem:
All those experiences
That we can’t describe
Can’t really express,
That we can only feel
And live,
Is what makes
Our life and living
More than special.

We all have our own defined body smell and possibly there is someone who loves it or is attracted to. I feel what makes human special in social ladder, one of is, the ability that we can feel and express in several ways. Or feel a feeling and have inability to express it. We should have as many in our life time.

The Wholesome

There we all are, moving from a phase to another, some longer and some shorter, everything that is defining us and giving a new definition to what and who we are. Through this journey, what I often do is to repeatedly tell myself, that I am bound to change. I can’t be the person who I was last decade, last year or in-fact yesterday. None of us can be. We are destined to transformation and the segments that we go through, changes us and it is inevitable part of life.

In each of these, there are dots that we leave behind. The dots of purposes, the dots of new profound meanings, the dots of relationships, the dots of experiences, and others and gibberish’s. Some of the phases are so much rapid and quick that we don’t even realize the dots that we leave behind. If one agrees, they can be classified under the label of ‘rich experiences.’ And then, there are dots that connect us beyond our bounded understandings.

Not everything we do in life needs to have a purpose for it. There are things we do because our mind, heart and soul shout us loud that it is the right thing to do. We do it not because there is a benefit associated to it, but we do because there is happiness associated to it. All those phases must teach us to be fearless and do the most right thing. Life is about jumping across these phases and not being stuck in one single monotonous routine phase. Wholesome? Yes. Feeling wholesome is a beyond understood experience.

What is more special than finding most compatible people across you?  
Writing something for their special day!  

While it might take us forever to understand what it truly means when one says ‘living the moment’, let’s just agree to celebrate every moment.

Erlebnisse

It’s April of 2022 and Day 05 of the A to Z challenge. This year, I am doing the theme – “Wordy Wonders.” I am selecting words that have deeper and graceful meanings, from across the globe and an eight-line poem along.

Day 05 – Erlebnisse  

Origin: German

Meaning: The most deeply felt and truly lived experiences, positive or negative

Poem

Here I sit
Wanting to write,
My Erlebnisse.
Something tells me,
They better be,
Unsaid.
They are always better,
Within.

A truly lived experience needs more than words. They probably need more than everything we could gather.

Word Pronunciation: ayr-LEEB-nis-eh