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Quining Qualia

open access: yes, 1988
"Qualia" is an unfamiliar term for something that could not be more familiar to each of us: the ways things seem to us. As is so often the case with philosophical jargon, it is easier to give examples than to give a definition of the term.
Dennett, Daniel C.
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Qualia as Maximally Constrained States: A Structural Account of Phenomenal Particularity

open access: yes
The hard problem of consciousness holds that no structural or functional description can logically entail the qualitative character of experience. Qualia appear to be the paradigm case of entities that resist structural reduction. This paper applies Constraint Theory — the thesis that constraint is the transcendental condition of determinacy and ...
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The Qualities of Qualia

open access: yes, 1997
This essay is a defence of the traditional notion of qualia - as properties of consciousness that are ineffable, intrinsic, private and immediately apprehensible - against the eliminative attempts of Daniel Dennett in the influential article "Quining ...
de Léon, David
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The Formal Structure of Phenomenology Qualia, Manifestation, and Selector-Access Regimes

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This paper develops the formal phenomenology layer that extends the operational boundary theory of unified agency established in Paper 73 . Paper 73 characterized the structural conditions under which a system forms a unified self-indexing adjudicative regime (O-SIAM).
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