“The space of all possible conscious experience” — and what it means that one point is actual.

The idea

For a century and a half the notion of a Qualia Space has surfaced wherever experience is studied: in the geometry of color, in the logic of similarity, in behavioral learning, in the brain's own maps, in the mathematics of consciousness. Each field found it independently and named it differently, but the idea is the same. Wherever there is experience there is nearness and distance between different qualities: red close to orange, far from green. Order those relations and a space appears, in which every experience holds a position among its alternatives. Whether that position is real, and what it does, are the questions this site pursues: ontology, actuality, value, and AI consciousness.