Consider the wonder of ...

OUR CONSCIOUSNESS

Galen (b. 129 AD) wrote, "... the primary element is qualityless, having no natural whiteness or blackness or any other color whatever, and no sweetness or bitterness or heat or cold or in general any other quality whatever. For, says Democritus [c. 460 --- 370 BC],

'By convention color, by convention bitter, by convention sweet: in reality atoms and void.'

And he thinks that it is from the congregation of atoms that all the perceptive qualities came to be --- they are relative to us who perceive them, and in nature there is nothing white or black or yellow or red or bitter or sweet."

All of our experience
is with our internal representation
of an external reality.

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