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- Qualia: raw feeling of a sensed structure
- That's a useful working definition. Qualia as "raw feeling of a sensed structure" captures what philosophers mean by subjective experience—the intrinsic, felt quality of sensation rather than its functional or informational properties.
- Using your wine example: The taste of wine has a structure (tannins, acidity, fruit notes), but qualia would be *the raw feeling* of experiencing that structure—what it's *like* to taste it. This distinguishes qualia from:
- - **The chemical/physical structure** (molecules, brain states)
- - **Behavioral responses** (describing the wine, buying it again)
- - **Functional properties** (how taste guides behavior)
- Author: https://app.warp.dev/referral/V9PGNJ
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