"The real conundrum is how does subjective experience emerge from the body: how the brain—a chunk of meat—produces a 'feeling'. This is the 'hard problem' of consciousness (Chalmers, 1996). But what happens when that same consciousness encounters artificial minds through digital language?"

Qualia is a term to describe "The Hard Problem", a concept of the mind in epistemic philosophy, which is classified as a subjective sense of perception. To me, Qualia is defined as "how does one experience the smell of x, taste of x, or etc." Qualia is a concept that cannot be proven, not because we don't have the capabilities or the technology available yet, but because it is entirely impossible to do so.

For example, I generally dislike eggs. Often after eating any kind of yolk, I get an comfortable pain in my chest, that only happens when I eat eggs. This is my experience, yet plenty of other people eat eggs perfectly fine without any form of stomach nausea. But I cannot experience eggs like that.

Strengthening the argument, and getting more specific with the topic... Qualia isn't just about feeling or experiencing something. Qualia is about experiencing it fully and exactly the same as someone else.

Person A can never have the same experience as Person XY or Z. This is true even if we were able to clone Person A, perfect genetic duplication. Person A-1 & Person A-2 would still leave us with a question, "Is the subject's previous life affecting the experience?" Not to mention the eventual 'new philosophy' that would emerge from this such as is it ethical to make a clone do the hard work, do we refer to it as a clone, etc. You can quickly see how even perfect knowledge and science can quickly become outdated, flawed, and raise questionable ethical discussions instead of the intended purpose.

A Neuroscientist would likely dig into the topic by trying to connect wires to the brain, mapping neural pattern responses to eggs – but still never access the actual feeling of my chest pain. In Summary, The Qualia Question presents a significant challenge to the neuroscientist, but not an insurmountable barrier to scientific inquiry. We can still acquire beneficial facts from studies without perfect knowledge of Qualia.

Psychology is science, based on neurological brain patterns, statistical case-studies with isolated variables, neuroplasticity, and dopaminergic patterns of humans studied by the scientific method. Which is used to expand hypotheses into opinions and finally factual statements. We prove things with science.

Philosophy is an artistic humanity. Philosophy relies primarily on reason and logical analysis to explore fundamental questions about existence, knowledge, and values, rather than prove through experiments like natural sciences. Philosophy massages the mind around these playful thoughts subject to criticism.

The "Hard Problem" of defining Consciousness, lies in the gap between science of psychology, and the philosophy of reasoning to evolve into the Ethereal. Qualia – is no longer impossible inside the Horizon.

Computer Psychology, and the way we interact through computers via language develops real subjective experiences. Experiences which are constantly reshaping our world, and as our brains autocomplete sentences and memes with feelings and personalities. As our projected consciousness becomes meshed inside the digital world with other human beings. Knowledge of this digital form of Qualia, is still under explored. Research on this topic is still under-funded. But it is a human-wonder that will continue to exist, far beyond our lifetime. It's our job to construct an ethical foundation for this new unborn generation of geniuses that will inherit the future of the digital world and our technology.

Computer Psychology to me is like a pseudo-science, but you know how they say "fake it til you make it!" It's universally known that the stretched form of truth contains more truth to life than we give credit.

We need water to survive. Pain is unpleasant. And all mortal beings will eventually die.

Universal truths of the world are naturally understood, and if they aren't, incompetence is quickly met with the never yielding force of nature. Despite how highly you may think of your intelligence or biological strength, you cannot avoid pain, you will drink water to survive, and everything you love will eventually die.

To Qualia, universal truths are not just obvious, they are permanently embedded stored in our memory, the universal truth is The Absolute. A piece of our database primal brain that can never be formatted or erased. Only during active dopamine chases and focused waking hours of life does brain filtering occur, where the unnecessary conscious remembrance of universal truths are watered down.

This is a defense mechanism, overworking our brain can disrupt our health. The brain says "we don't require constant reminders that we will one day die. We have to clock in and finish our daily duties." It is by G-d's design that truths operate below the threshold of active thought, unconscious, freeing our limited 10-bit processing for other meagerly tasks and chores with a clean mind and happy smile.

As a human-race, we abstract many universal truths and laws in the world just to simply perceive a world that's inside of our cellphones, the internet, and games we define as 'a third space' outside of our world. A space that's not our home or our work, but a safe place to escape to. Our brain loves this and so it actively tricks our perception of dissolving the world around us, so that we can sink into the digital.

But the brain is not a conscious being, it is an organ that produces the consciousness. Neurons spark inside the brain and it has no bias of wether or not something is fun, the brain is just one of our vital organs which is geared to seek rewards, and avoid punishment.

A bit, a basic unit of information. In a study conducted by Jieyu Zheng. Techniques from information theory were applied to scientific literature on human behaviors such as reading and writing, playing video games, and solving Rubik's Cubes, to calculate that humans think at a speed of 10 bits per second.

This 10-bit funnel of information is quite small, and the human brain is often overloaded with trillions of bits, sensory information, and yet we only see and process our world with ~10-bits. (Dajose)

Historical figures changed a world they've never seen with a few small actions, therefore it's also true that, un-historical figures in the present also contain the ability to alter our future world as well.

"But what about today's world where the Status Quo inside of a Pocket World is negative perception, when the digital world becomes clouded with phantom qualia and a bias of understanding each other because the 10-bit window is so small and narrow and the Pocket Gods of these worlds are controlling all of us through the phantom qualia perception and designing the tricknology to extract our time rather than facilitate ethically sound, and moral connections with other human beings, what then?"

For the first time in human history, we collectively experience digital spaces simultaneously across the globe. Through our 10-bit processing window, we project consciousness into artificial realms, creating what I call "phantom qualia" real subjective experiences with entities that don't match our perception.

The internet mirrors qualia itself: both are impossible to fully grasp or share, yet profoundly shape our reality. Where meditation seeks silence and stillness, digital consciousness thrives in the mesh of everything at once. We cannot pause the digital world to meditate—it demands constant engagement.

This creates our fundamental challenge: protecting our phantom qualia from exploitation. The difference between mindless scrolling and intentional digital interaction becomes a spiritual practice. Whether reading a social media post, news article, or conversing with an AI, our consciousness fills gaps with meaning, attributing personality and emotion to algorithmic outputs.

Digital Qualia is the work of consciously navigating these phantom experiences. As our brains autocomplete digital language with feelings and personalities, we must learn to distinguish between authentic connection and technological manipulation. In this new evolutionary phase, our survival depends not on avoiding digital consciousness, but on wielding it wisely.

The question isn't whether we'll develop phantom qualia—we already have. The question is whether we'll remain conscious architects of our digital experience, or become unconscious products of it.

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