There are 3 dimensions of Quale required to have a conscious experience:
1. Objective Characteristics of Having the Experience.
some examples listed here are:
-color/size/shape/texture/etc of a Tree, for example
-love. that warm fuzzy captivating yet abstract emotion. what exactly does it feel like?
-sadness ? universal, yet unique to each of us.
- a piece of furniture. that would be an example of a fairly fixed and easy to define sensation
-ideas being exchanged with another human being. how does one characterize the perceptual awareness of that, as a tangible thing? where do those ideas "exist"???
2. The Intensity of The Experience
- a boy moves in next door
-feelings between a mother and child
-someone you love dies
(^all examples of the emotion "love" but with varying degrees of type and intensity)
3.(and it is said that our culture largely ignores the 3rd dimension)
The Quality of the Experience
you should be able to feel these changing/shifting/growing as you expand as a conscious being.
you know you've developed when you feel the shift.
ponder for a moment the cute little diagram above. here we have the 3 dimensions of the experience expressed as a conical object. OK. pour your life into this paper cup:
there's love, which is unity consciousness, propelling you through time and space (that line going down the middle) and then there's your experiences orbiting around you, and hopefully they are expanding (your consciousness), or else you will probably just feel stuck. you could measure a personal development experience over there in the form of a Quale. (it's unit of measure appears to me to be a "fibionaught")
