qualia - introspectively accessible, phenomenal aspects of the mental life, ineffable, intrinsic, private and directly or immediately apprehensible in consciousness

'the way things seem to us'

Here's how I described myself in another place in 2016. It still applies. 'I live in England. I'm what's described as a 'hard agnostic' which is just about as atheist as you can get. I am politically green and left. I'm a botanist and landscape architect by profession, and have played more roles than you could count. But I still don't know who I am. Maybe I'll find out one day.'

It's been hard for me to keep going here, for reasons of my own and because I find all social media increasingly tiresome. From July 2024 I have severed connections, only retaining the ability to post my occasional pictures and words. It's by no means personal, and I'm almost 100% certain that you feel no more connected to me that I to you. I have valued what I have gained and lost here, not least time.