anilmc on Nostr: npub19fcv2…aay3c this relates to your boss discussion about consciousness. Qualia ...

npub19fcv2nflra09c6p9xz8c8detwj6uy07u4z4m25qh836mnvxtatdq6aay3c (npub19fc…ay3c) this relates to your boss discussion about consciousness. Qualia is a product of awareness and mind, but awareness is only in the now so when you try to recreate from memory mind alone, it lacks, well, immediacy. This is why a persistent earworm craves the real thing, even your hum - the temporal echo which is thought of music isn't sound. Smell is the closest to breath so the effect's more pronounced in terms of absence. In reverse, a real smell triggers memory like nothing else.