Qualia Eco Tote Bag — Conscious Experience Word Tote
✓ Made to order
✓ Secure checkout
✓ Free U.S. shipping over $75
✓ We’ll replace damaged or misprinted items
QUALIA (noun, plural)
The subjective, personal qualities of conscious experience—what something feels like to you.
The smell of an old book. The taste of coffee. The feeling of sunlight on your skin. The inexplicable satisfaction of carrying everything you need in one bag. Philosophers call these private, first-person experiences qualia. Everyone else generally settles for, “You know the feeling.”
Qualia are the intensely personal sensations that make consciousness fascinating—and inconveniently difficult to explain. Two people can see the same color, hear the same song, or taste the same coffee, yet neither can ever know with certainty whether the other experiences it in precisely the same way.
The Qualia Eco Tote Bag celebrates one of philosophy’s most intriguing concepts with a distinctive WordSmirk™ design made for deep thinkers, philosophy enthusiasts, psychology fans, academics, and anyone whose everyday observations have an unfortunate tendency to become existential questions.
Carry it to the bookstore, library, university, coffee shop, farmers market, museum, or wherever your books, groceries, and unresolved questions about consciousness need to go. It also makes a distinctive gift for philosophy lovers, psychology enthusiasts, students, professors, academics, book lovers, deep thinkers, and word nerds.
Why you'll love it: A practical reusable tote featuring distinctive WordSmirk™ artwork, a fascinating philosophical concept, and a conversation-starting design capable of turning an ordinary bag into a discussion about the nature of human experience.
Qualia: because apparently even carrying your groceries can become a philosophical experience.
Qualia Eco Tote Bag — Conscious Experience Word Tote
QUALIA (noun, plural)
The subjective, personal qualities of conscious experience—what something feels like to you.
The smell of an old book. The taste of coffee. The feeling of sunlight on your skin. The inexplicable satisfaction of carrying everything you need in one bag. Philosophers call these private, first-person experiences qualia. Everyone else generally settles for, “You know the feeling.”
Qualia are the intensely personal sensations that make consciousness fascinating—and inconveniently difficult to explain. Two people can see the same color, hear the same song, or taste the same coffee, yet neither can ever know with certainty whether the other experiences it in precisely the same way.
The Qualia Eco Tote Bag celebrates one of philosophy’s most intriguing concepts with a distinctive WordSmirk™ design made for deep thinkers, philosophy enthusiasts, psychology fans, academics, and anyone whose everyday observations have an unfortunate tendency to become existential questions.
Carry it to the bookstore, library, university, coffee shop, farmers market, museum, or wherever your books, groceries, and unresolved questions about consciousness need to go. It also makes a distinctive gift for philosophy lovers, psychology enthusiasts, students, professors, academics, book lovers, deep thinkers, and word nerds.
Why you'll love it: A practical reusable tote featuring distinctive WordSmirk™ artwork, a fascinating philosophical concept, and a conversation-starting design capable of turning an ordinary bag into a discussion about the nature of human experience.
Qualia: because apparently even carrying your groceries can become a philosophical experience.
FIRST WE MAKE IT. THEN YOU STALK THE TRACKING.
Every WordSmirk™ item is made to order, which means your new favorite shirt or hoodie doesn’t actually exist yet. You buy it. We make it. Very existential.
Once your item has finished its journey from idea to actual thing you can wear, it ships.
Your shipping time is added on top of the production time and depends on the shipping method you selected at checkout.
So the basic equation is:
Production Time + Your Selected Shipping Time = “WHERE IS MY SHIRT?!”
Don’t worry. It’s coming.
Good words take a little time. Great ones come with tracking numbers.
Guessing your size is fun right up until the package arrives.
That’s why we provide a Size Guide on every product page. Simply click “Size Guide” next to the product size options to see the measurements before making any irreversible wardrobe decisions.
Measure yourself. Check the guide. Choose wisely.
Because “I’m pretty sure I’m a medium” is still not a recognized unit of measurement.
And remember: our products are made to order, so this is one of those rare occasions when size really does matter.
| Color |
Black, Oyster |
|---|