recipe for soul feeling (roughly):
1. heart-piercingness
2. aliveness
3. rich inner life. internal concepts connected to a lot more concepts/feelings than usual
4. overwhelming compassion. people are worlds
5. responsiveness. world can evoke things in you
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but that's prob pretty idiosyncratic, and soul qualia different for other people
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i don't think i have the cluster of things you listed. how do i know if a quale that i have in other circumstances is a soul quale
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(also to be clear, i dont have all those things either, in normal state. just on a rare occassion something poignant triggers all of them at once)
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i'm curious if there's a pattern in what music (or other stuff) causes the state
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poignant things. usually music. sometimes an emotional expression on a face. once a weird thing about the sound of the good part of childhood that i always thought was an owl, but after learning it was actually a mourning dove, brain did oddly massive update cascade
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the same, except I still haven't figured out what bird it really was because it's the wrong continent for mourning doves, maybe it really was an owl
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ah cooool! glad someone shares this! it was so weird how one little fact change had such a large effect
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the bird thing just kinda went from settled to not settled, but I had this experience for the sound of air raid sirens when I first read a chart about them and understood what the different signals meant [I remember being disappointed I'd never heard a nuke siren]
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the bird, I still wonder about, but I used to be really sure that it was an owl (eurasian eagle-owl specifically, we call them Uhu)