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Qualia

Qualia (singular: quale) are the qualitative characters of the given, according to C.I. Lewis, who coined the term. The subjective "raw feels" of sensory perception, such as the redness of the color red.

Philosopher Daniel Dennett ascribes four properties to qualia: they are ineffible - cannot be communicated or apprehended in any other way than direct experience; they are intrinsic - non-relational, do not change depending on experience or in relation to other things; they are private - interpersonal comparisons of qualia are systematically impossible; and they are directly apprehensible in consciousness - to experience a quale is to know all that can be known about that quale.

Web Resources On Qualia

Qualia in SEP
Qualia in Wikipedia
The Qualia Manifesto

Book Resources On Qualia

Unbounded Consciousness: Qualia, Mind and Self by M. Singer, Ming Singer
Blindsight by Peter Watts
Purple Haze: The Puzzle of Consciousness by Joseph Levine

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