What if the fundamental nature of reality is a timeless ocean where every possible bundle of qualia - first person sensory experiences - exists within it? Time doesn’t actually exist, but the illusion of it could, as bundles could have false memories and expectations.
Qualia is a stupid man-made thing that doesn’t even scientifically exist
Can you expand on what you mean by that? As I thought, the scientific method was about empirically testing things, and the empirical world is defined by what we can sense - ie our qualia.
My understanding is that qualia are how a “consciousness” experiences something, and I disagree with the notion of a consciousness being a definable thing in general. It’s not a scientific meaning so you can never unambiguously talk about anything in the context of qualia.
Ok, maybe you’re not conscious then. I know that I am.