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Timeconsciousness in Very Long Life
we do not yet know. For example, the feeling of laughter, its 
funniness, is indissolubly linked to the pattern of expression. 
Rednesss or sweetness is indissolubly linked to a particular 
pattern of neural and synaptic activity, which in itself looks 
similar to other neural activities and in no way discloses the 
quality of redness or sweetness. Yet these (unlearned) quali-
ties of experience remain unchanged throughout a lifetime, 
and often even until the last moments of life. We do not know 
what controls logogenesis. The earliest ingenious invention 
perhaps  is  the  substitution  of  the  feeling  hunger  for  other 
ways to regulate food intake. That feeling tells us when to 
eat, what to eat, and how much to eat and urges us to move 
to find food. What an amazing thing! How would we invent 
something like this? 
But perhaps even more ingenious is the sexual feeling. With 
it the chances of reproduction (say of a mammal) increase 
from infinitesimal to a viable, even likely number. That feel-
ing in its manifestations makes the continuation of the species, 
and evolution itself, possible.
What invented that feeling and placed it in its environment 
so it could, much of the time, function? Is it itself evolving? 
Clearly it is genetically programmed. If the sexual organs are 
generated through morphogenesis, the feeling, conscious and 
subconscious, is generated by logogenesis. So is the intense 
feeling of orgasm, different from other feelings. All qualia are 
created by logogenesis. We do not know yet how that works, 
and how it will change under timeconsciousness transforma-
tion. But a computer or a robot will need it to feel. It does 
not seem that zeros and ones are a way to obtain its function. 
How then? We have a terrible way to sweep under the carpet 
anything we do not understand and pretend it does not exist. 
It is time to see that the emperor has no clothes. Neither con-
sciousness, nor timeconsciousness is possible for a machine 
until logogenesis is understood. It is no good to say that we