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2019-09-12 · updated 2019-09-15 We think of the great unknowns of cosmology in terms of physics (what was the Big Bang? Why does our physics have the constants it does? What are dark energy and dark matter?) and xenobiology (are there aliens out there? What might they be like? Why haven’t we seen any?). However, a potentially generative frame is asking what kind of qualia is out there in our universe. What kinds of non-human subjective experience we might discover if we had better theories. As I shared in Principia Qualia Appendix F, We tend to think of consciousness, and theories of…

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