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The term ''qualia space'' was introduced by Richard P. Stanley<ref name="Stanley">Richard P. Stanley, ''Qualia Space'', Journal of Cognitive Studies, 1999</ref> to denote the space of all possible conscious experiences. Here, 'all possible' refers loosely to all conscious experiences which could be experienced by any brain.
Restricting attention to [[qualia]], taken by Stanely to denote perceptual consciousness, as well as static experiences alone, Stanely characterizes the mathematical structure of qualia space by referring to his own intuitions on how qualia would tie into the physical domain. He arrives at the conclusion that qualia space <math>Q</math> is* ''a closed pointed cone in an infinite-dimensional separable real topological vector space.''
The following gives an example of the type of argument Stanley utilizes: To establish that qualia space is connected,
